Table 1 Discrete choice experiment attributes and levels for final year undergraduate nursing students
From: Job preferences of undergraduate nursing students in eastern China: a discrete choice experiment
Attributes | Definition | Levels |
|---|---|---|
Location | Location means to work in different level hospitals of the different regions. | Township or village |
County | ||
City | ||
Monthly income | Monthly income includes salary, bonus, and welfare benefits (pension scheme, basic medical insurance, unemployment insurance, employment injury insurance, maternity insurance, and housing accumulation funds). | RMB 2000 |
RMB 5000 | ||
RMB 8000 | ||
Bianzhi | Bianzhi means that the establishment of medical institutions, the number of staff, and distribution of duties which are allocated by financial departments are prepared by bianzhi departments at different levels. | No |
Yes | ||
Career development and training opportunity | Career development and training opportunity includes the opportunities of promotion and participating in various professional training. | Insufficient |
Some | ||
Sufficient | ||
Work environment | Work environment includes infrastructures, medical facilities and medicines of hospital, management style and cultural development of hospital, amenities (such as regular bus, canteen, and lounge), superior-subordinate relationship and colleagueship. | Poor: insufficient essential equipment, limited support by managers, poor superior-subordinate relationship and colleagueship. |
Normal: nearly sufficient essential equipment, partly support by managers, moderate superior-subordinate relationship and colleagueship. | ||
Excellent: sufficient essential equipment, full support by managers, harmonious superior-subordinate relationship and colleagueship. | ||
Working strength | Working strength includes the workload in the daytime (whether they have enough time to complete duties) and the conditions of working overtime or night shift. | Heavy: barely enough time to complete duties, working overtime or night shift four times a week at least. |
Medium: nearly enough time to complete duties, working overtime or night shift twice or three times a week. | ||
Light: enough time to complete duties, working overtime or night shift once a week at most. |