Motivation: A Powerful Key to Student Learning Engage

1. NATIONAL TERTIARY
LEARNING AND
TEACHING
CONFERENCE 2013
Invercargill, New Zealand
Jed Ray Montayre
School of Nursing
Southern Institute of Technology

2. MOTIVATION: A POWERFUL KEY TO
STUDENT LEARNING
ENGAGEMENT

3. THE QUERY
What makes the new generation of nurses
today?

4. STATISTICS
 Globally there are 29 nurses and midwives per 10000 population
(WHO Statistics, 2013)
 In NZ as of 2010, there were approximately 45, 460 nurses (RN &
EN’s combined)
 Population is predicted to increase to 5.26 million in 2035
 Factors which includes aging population and increased demand
of health care services are inevitable.

5. THE PICTURE OF NURSING
WORKFORCE BY 2035
 In NZ 50% of the nursing workforce will retire in 2035
 With the nursing workforce affected by the increasing population
and aging there will be a shortage of 15,000 nurses by 2035.
 Increase in number of Internationally Qualified Nurses
 Decrease or decline in NZ nurse graduates

6. OTHER PREDICTIONS
 Potential of other countries attract more NZ nurses to relieve their
own shortages
 NZ less attractive to IQN’s
 Nursing could also become a less attractive career and fail to
attract students
 Strategies would increase the retention of nurses ( improvements
in working conditions)
 Some nurses may choose to leave the nursing workforce when
the recession ends.

7. CHALLENGES OF CONTEMPORARY
NURSING
If the population grows to 5.26 million
RNs will need to grow from 42, 330 in 2010 to 54, 660 in 2035=
ENs from 3,130 in 2010 to 4,830 in 2035=
An additional 495 RNs and 82 ENs needs enter the workforce
annually
12, 330
1700

8. HOW MANY ARE WE LOOKING AT?
 5.26 million population
 970,000 of under 15 years old ( 890,00 in 2010)
 1.2 million of over the age of 65 (600,00 in 2010)

9. NURSING EDUCATION
 DECREASED IN NZ Nursing Graduates
Workforce Supply is very sensitive to any changes to education
Equivalent Full Time Students.
The increasing capacity to educate more nurses may be dependent
on developing different models of clinical education and increasing
investment in nurse education.

10. THE PICTURE

11. THE QUESTIONS?
 WHAT KEEPS US GOING?
 WHY DO WE KEEP NURSING ?
 HOW DO WE KEEP UP WITH SUCH CHALLENGES?
WHAT MOTIVATES US TO CONTINUE
NURSING?

12. NURSING EDUCATION
 WHAT MOTIVATES STUDENTS TO STUDY NURSING?
 THE FUTURE NURSING WORKFORCE
 THE FUTURE GENERATION OF NURSES (2035)

13. Why Do We Have to
Know?
 The quality of nursing
care given to health
consumers reflects the
nurses who provided it.
The delivery of quality
standard of care is highly
affected by the motivation
of doing nursing

14. The Challenges in Nursing
 Yet over the years,
contemporary nursing practice
faces a challenge on how
motivated are the nurses in
their career and out of that, a
question was raised on what
motivates new generation of
students to choose nursing as
future profession

15. The Purpose
 This study explored and
engaged in an in-depth
analysis on what motivates the
new generation of future
nurses or the nursing students
to embrace the nursing
profession. It was deemed
imperative that in the process
of knowing what makes the
nurses of today this question
should be retorted.

16. The Method
 descriptive qualitative method
 Data from the written accounts
of nursing students newly
admitted to the BN programme
were gathered and analysed by
formulating themes upon doing
a content exploration.
 was anchored to Dorothy
Johnson’s Theory

17. The Nursing Theory
Applied
DOROTHY JOHNSON’S
THEORY
DRIVE= MOTIVATION

18. DRIVE
Johnson’s Behavioural Systems Model
HUMANS AS BEHAVIOURAL SYSTEMS
CHOICE
SET
BEHAVIOUR
THE ROOT OR
THE MOTIVATION
SATISFYING THE DRIVE
FOLLOWING THE SET
ACTION
COMPOSED OF:

19. DRIVE
Johnson’s Behavioural Systems Model
CHOICE
SET
BEHAVIOUR
THE MOTIVATION TO STUDY NURSING
SATISFYING THE MOTIVATION TO STUDY
DECISION TO BECOME A NURS
NURSING

20. RESULTS
Findings revealed three topmost
motivators in studying nursing

21. FINDINGS # 1
 First, is the strong personal
connection or life
experiences towards nursing
 The Making of the Nurse
 INHERENT

22. FINDINGS # 2
 Second is the fascination of
how the human body works,

23. FINDINGS # 3
 Third is getting it easy to the
job market.

24. ANALYSIS OF RESULTS
 Inherent Interest
 Personal Experience
 Personal Connectedness
= INHERENT MOTIVATION
FACTOR
 MAKING OF THE NURSE

25. CONCLUSION
Motivation to study nursing means passion and positive outlook of
the future.
Maintaining the motivation means nurse educators need to engage
students in:
 an experiential learning approach to support their inherent
passion and
 at the policy level a review of boosting nursing job opportunities
is vital.

26. RECOMMENDATIONS
Experiential learning approach
to support their inherent
passion and interest in nursing
 ENHANCING SIMULATION
 ENHANCING OR
CONCRETE CLINICAL
EXPERIENCE DURING THE
TRAINING
 ROLE OF NURSING
EDUCATION
 THE NURSE IN THE
MAKING

27. RECOMMENDATIONS
Review of boosting nursing job
opportunities is vital.
NCNZ & BERL Report

28. FUTURE RESEARCH
 Longitudinal Study on
Motivation Factors among
Nursing Students over the 3
years in the BN Programme
 Role of Nurse Educators
(Extrinsic Motivation) for
Nursing Students

29. THE QUERY
What made you the nurse that you are now?
Nursing Education
MOTIVATION:
A Powerful Key to Student Learning Engagement

30. THANK YOU!
Jed Ray G. Montayre
SIT-School of Nursing