NET 2018 Conference: Following the offer: Factors influencing pre-registration health professionals' choice of higher education institute

This session presents the findings from a small-scale qualitative study exploring the factors that influenced Pre-registration Mental Health Nursing and Occupational Therapy choice of higher education institute. During the session the qualitative methodology used will be presented comprising focus groups for each professional group to generate the data; NVIVO software used to transcribe code theme and analyse the data. Findings comprising of five themes: environment; relational; communication; proximity; and recommendation will be presented and discussed.