The financial challenges of caring for children with profound intellectual disability as experienced by newly qualified nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

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.

Method

A qualitative-exploratory-descriptive design was used to explore and descr

SUBMITTER: Molefe L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12359884 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature