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Job Desirability / e Eleven semantfc.These scales , indicated that <,,Students" attitudes toward nursing were highly positive in term? of financial reward pe onal reward, occupational ( -status, work enjoyment, challenge, a vancement oppdrtunities, neutral- in terms of the 'degree Of pervision, 'and negatiVe in terms of work hours and work di .. Students also thought that a nursing career required a considr ble amount of education and was very female-oriented. -7 Attitudes Toward Nursing Tasks The pleasantneSs ratings students gave to the taskS theithought' the hosPital duty nurse ,(HDN) performed most frequentlY ranged lietween moderately pleasant to slightly unPleasant. When using students' pleasantness ratings- to evaluate the tasks that a group of. hospital ,clufk nurses gaid they actually did most frequently, a denionstrable iinprvement in student pleasantness ratings obtained. Although there were some\interesting and subStantial differences between regional and racial subgroups, generally it was found that differences between makes 'and females accounted 'for most of the differential attitudes toWarcl nursing tasks. Reasons\ for Rejecting rilreers When asked to state /the reasons '--fo&- not desiring nursing Careers, students gave several categories 'of responses; females, however, most frequently did not faVor it pecause of "squeamish- ness" (i.e., they could /II& ,stand the sight-of \blood, did not like hospital environments, or could not bear to be around-sick and dying people).differential subscales-were used to measure the desirability ,of certain aspects of nursing careers.

Job Desirability / e Eleven semantfc. differential subscales-were used to measure the desirability ,of certain aspects of nursing careers. These scales , indicated that