Recruitment of graduate nurses into oncology practice remains challenging. Prelicensure nursing students continue to rank oncology as one of the lowest clinical specialties for desired employment after graduation (Smiley et al., 2023). According to a workforce survey by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, oncology as a specialty has ranked below the critical care, medical or surgical, women's health and maternity, emergency, perioperative, and pediatric fields for the past seven years (Smiley et al., 2023).
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