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The dataset is missing your side of it

Everything else on this site was collected from people talking publicly about their work — which skews toward whoever felt like posting, usually on a bad day. This is the fix: answers given deliberately, by nurses, knowing they will be read by someone deciding whether to do this job.

  • 23 tap-or-select questions
  • 13 written ones, all optional
  • ~6 min for the core set
  • Anonymous — no name, employer or address

No responses have been approved yet — you would be the first. Nothing is published until 100 responses have come in, and even then only in aggregate.

Step 1 of 3 0 of 36 answered

About 6 minutes to the end of step 2, which is a complete answer on its own. Step 3 adds roughly 4 more if you want to. Every question is optional.

First Which job are you answering about?
Step 1 of 3 About your work 5 questions

Six taps. These let us check who's answering against the national nursing workforce — no name, no employer, no address.

The federal nursing survey uses these same four options, so answers here can be set against the national picture.
Same four-point scale as the federal NSSRN. It asks about the job held on a fixed past date, this asks about your job now — so the shapes compare, the numbers are not a like-for-like match.
The interesting one. Plenty of nurses would do nursing again — but not this corner of it.
Same five-point scale as the federal NSSRN's burnout item.

That is the part that counts

Those 5 answers are the ones this site publishes figures from — satisfaction, whether you would choose it again, and burnout, on the same scales the federal nursing survey uses. Send them now and you are counted.

Or keep going: step 2 is background that lets us weight your answers against the national workforce, and step 3 is where people write the things we end up quoting. Every question stays optional.

Step 2 of 3 The core questions 15 questions

The heart of it. Stop here if you like — a response that ends at the bottom of this step is complete and useful on its own.

Specialty list copied from the federal NSSRN so the mix here can be compared to the national one.
Settings grouped the way the federal NSSRN groups them, so the mix here can be compared to the national one.
Bands copied from the federal NSSRN so tenure here can be compared to the national workforce.
Not your highest qualification — the one that first got you licensed. Matched to the federal NSSRN's own categories for first-licence education.
Full-time/part-time split matched to the federal NSSRN.
Employment arrangement matched to the federal NSSRN's own categories.
State only — never a city, employer or address.
Before you send it
  • Your answers may be published on this site, anonymously — quoted or counted.
  • They may also be used commercially: in aggregate statistics, derived datasets, research and data products — and may be licensed or supplied to other organisations, always anonymised or aggregated, never as an identifiable record of you.
  • You give Career Field Notes a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free licence to use, reproduce, adapt and publish your answers for those purposes. You keep ownership of what you wrote.
  • You confirm the answers are your own, and that you have not included anything identifying a patient, an employer, or another person.
  • Taking part is voluntary, every question is optional, and there is no payment.
  • We never ask for your name, date of birth, employer or address. Email is optional and is stored separately from your answers.
  • Nothing is published automatically — a person reviews every response first, and you can ask us to remove yours at any time.

The longer version, in full: how your answers are used.

If you type one, your browser turns the domain into a one-way hash before anything is sent. We learn “this came from a hospital domain we have seen before”; we never learn your address, and it is never shown on the site. Skip it freely — it changes nothing about whether your answer is used.

Stored separately from your answers. Only used to send you the results, or to reply if you ask us something.

Nothing here is published automatically. A person reviews every response before any part of it could appear, and you can ask for removal at any time.