However, a substantial proportion of nurses are junior nurses with only certificate-level (two years) qualification.
Three years after qualification the survey was sent to 44 818 doctors covering the first eleven cohorts (1974 2008); 65.6% (29 402) replied.
Three years after qualification, the survey questionnaire was sent to 38 131 doctors covering the first ten cohorts: 26 174 (68.6%) replied.
Three years after qualification a second survey questionnaire was sent to the same doctors and 23,468 (70.8%) replied.
Nursing staff within one to three years of qualification identified a significantly greater mean number of risk factors than their more senior counterparts.
Three years after qualification correspondence between choices for cardiology and destination rose to 57.8% of untied first choices for cardiology, and, five years after qualification, the great majority (87.3%) of those who indicated cardiology as their sole first choice were later practising in the specialty (Table 2).
Three years after qualification, 4.7% of all respondents (4.4% of men and 5.1% of women) gave psychiatry as their first choice, as did 5.0% of all respondents 5 years after (4.5% of men and 5.4% of women).
Nine professional acupuncturists provided the acupuncture, and all were registered with the British Acupuncture Council with at least three years' post qualification experience, and were working at independent clinics.
This study uses secondary data from a nationally representative (England) longitudinal cohort of nurses who qualified from the diploma programme in 1997/1998 to test the hypotheses that job satisfaction has an indirect effect, mediated through intentions, and has a direct effect on whether a recently qualified nurse was nursing at 18 months and three years after qualification.
The collection was missing three years of firearms qualification records and nearly all of the necessary field training officer records.
* Ten years after qualification (1974 1996 cohorts) or seven years after (1999 and 2000 cohorts).
