The legal status of sex work and the entrenched stigma and discrimination associated with the profession in Africa means that sex workers have historically been viewed as "reservoirs of sexually transmitted disease", and blamed for the continent's HIV crisis [ 8, 9].
The study result showed that extrinsic motivators, such as teachers' involvement, organization of the program, contents in the studies associated to the profession, life situation and friendship during the studies were more commonly used as explanation to the motivation score than was intrinsic factors such as attitude to the study and study result.
In spite of engineering's long and glorious history – think Thomas Edison, John Frank Stevens, Henry Ford, and Herbert Hoover – there seems to have been stereotypical image problems associated with the profession.
Therefore, this study was conducted in order to fill the knowledge gap regarding the factors associated with Ethiopian nurses' ITS in the profession.
Despite the appointment of a vigorous new executive director, Victoria Crayne, and the hiring of a public relations counselor, Vicki Beck of Carl Terzian Associates, the profession in general, and the AIA in particular, confront a wall of prejudice and ignorance in presenting their case to the community.
Furthermore, because Ethiopia has a severe shortage of nurses overall, it is imperative to understand the factors associated with nurses' intent to stay in the profession to prevent further reduction in the workforce.
With respect to the socio-demographic characteristics, age, marital status and level of nursing education were all associated with Ethiopian nurses' intent to stay in the profession.
PA was negatively associated with age, number of years married, children, years in the current job, and in the profession.
A name may also be associated with an idea or profession because there are already other people with that name in the profession or who have expressed that idea.
Reason for continuing in the profession?
Others in the profession are less squeamish.
