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Abstract
In many countries nurses comprise the largest professional group in the health care workforce and, while their roles are key to any workplace reform. Implications for nursing education include provision of educational experiences that foster an optimistic career outlook in areas where there is a growing need for nursing services. A descriptive survey design and non-probability purposive sampling technique, data was collected by using a structured questionnaire. The collected data was analyzed and reveal that 86.7% of the respondents decided to continue nursing as their career and 41.7% made their decision based on the idea of earning a higher income, 38.3% were planning to go abroad either for higher education or to work in the clinical setting while 76.7% were interested in pursuing higher education of which their subject of choice is Psychiatric Nursing (30.0%). The most preferred area of work is ICU (40%) and 53.35% of the respondent’s prefer to take up a clinical instructor’s job, (47.8%) prefer clinical instructor job due to low status of nurses. (81.7%) Nursing students agree with the statement that brain drain effect the nursing services in country, (85.7%) thought that low status of nurses is the most probable cause for brain drain.