Molefe Lebogang
Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University, Ga-Rankuwa, Pretoria, South Africa.
BMC Nurs. 2025 Aug 18;24(1):1082. doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-03733-2.
Financial challenges are often experienced by professionals who are employed due to low salaries that do not meet their needs. Newly qualified nurses are among those employed professionals who experience financial challenges due to low salaries. The situation is even worse for those newly qualified nurses who are providing care to children with profound intellectual disabilities. Children with profound intellectual disabilities need complete custodial or nursing care. The complexity in the nature of caring enables them to be amongst the highly paid professionals; however, this is not the case. Little is known about the financial challenges experienced by such nurses, hence the study.
A qualitative-exploratory-descriptive design was used to explore and describe the financial challenges of caring for children with profound intellectual disability as experienced by newly qualified nurses. Fifteen newly qualified nurses who provide care to children with profound intellectual disabilities were interviewed, using semi-structured interviews.
Two themes emerged, budget constraints and cost of living, and emotional toll. The two themes further provided more details on why it is concluded that newly qualified experienced financial challenges through their subthemes and paved the way to interventions that will alleviate the challenges.
The study concluded that newly qualified nurses have financial challenges. The study further concluded that there is an urgent need to revisit human resource remuneration policies for newly qualified nurses.
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因薪资过低无法满足需求，受雇的专业人员常常面临经济挑战。新获得资格的护士属于因薪资低而面临经济挑战的受雇专业人员。对于那些为重度智力残疾儿童提供护理的新获得资格的护士来说，情况更为糟糕。重度智力残疾儿童需要全面的监护或护理。护理工作性质的复杂性使他们应成为高薪专业人员之一；然而实际并非如此。对于这类护士所面临的经济挑战知之甚少，因此开展了此项研究。
采用定性探索性描述性设计，以探究和描述新获得资格的护士在护理重度智力残疾儿童时所面临的经济挑战。对15名护理重度智力残疾儿童的新获得资格的护士进行了半结构化访谈。
出现了两个主题，即预算限制与生活成本以及情感代价。这两个主题通过其子主题进一步详细说明了为何得出新获得资格的护士面临经济挑战的结论，并为缓解这些挑战的干预措施铺平了道路。
该研究得出结论，新获得资格的护士存在经济挑战。该研究进一步得出结论，迫切需要重新审视针对新获得资格护士的人力资源薪酬政策。
不适用。
