Authors : Sayedali Naji, Akram Nikbakht, Heydarali Abedi and Azam Esmaeili
Abstract: Nurses constitute the largest health care provider in a way that plays an important role in their professional capacity to fulfill the health system. Attract university graduates and centers of higher education in the labor market depends on the capabilities and features that some of them should be established during the course of study at the university. It seems disproportion between the processes and materials disciplines in universities with the skills and abilities needed for the labor market can also be a failure of graduates in employment and occupation. The purpose of recent research was determining employment status and unemployment factors of nursing graduates of Islamic Azad University of Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan) in 2013. The quantitative research was descriptive and its statistical community was nursing graduates of Khorasgan branch from 1995-2012. The 200 samples were selected. The data collection tool was questionnaire which its validity and reliability of its content by using the test-retest (r = 0.85) was determined. Data analysis was done through descriptive statistics. The analysis showed that the average age 34.4 year, the frequency of BA degree, was 96% and MA was 4%. About 79.5% were employed in nursing and 5.4% were employed in non-nursing jobs and 16% were unemployed. Among the 159 people who were employed in nursing, 49.4% were employed in hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health, 12.8% were employed in hospitals affiliated to the social security, 2.4% were working in other government agencies, 17.7% were working in private hospitals and 0.6% were working in charity hospitals. 29 people did not reply to this section. In response to the problem of employment, only 3.6% have been difficult to employ. The most important barriers to employment in the group under study, the presence of children (19.5%) against the wife of employment in nursing (13.5%) and working hard (9.5%) and lack of personal interest in nursing work (8%) was raised. None of the subjects were not the cause of unemployment of university and parental opposition. Employment in the nursing profession needs to have interest and a spirit of forgiveness and self-sacrifice. In causes of unemployment graduates of this course, more of individuals, families and professionals was involved which raises the importance of more volunteers and nursing students to justify admission. Promoting employment and social status of the proposal is effective in removing barriers to employment. The subject that has been considered in recent years.
Sayedali Naji, Akram Nikbakht, Heydarali Abedi and Azam Esmaeili, 2016. Determination of Employment Status and Unemployment Factors of Nursing Graduates of Islamic Azad University of Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan) in 2013. Research Journal of Medical Sciences, 10: 348-350.