The pie chart illustrates professional destinations of nursing graduates in the UK in 2009, while the accompanying table compares various occupations held by these graduates in the health sector .
Overall, what stands out the most is that the percentage of graduates working in the health sector was highest, whereas the reverse was true for other students. Moreover, the most popular career choice among them was becoming a hospital nurse, followed distantly by mental nurses, paramedics, and others.
Postgraduate graduation options for nursing students were disproportionately distributed among five choices. 84% of them ended up working in the health sector, while 8% of graduates opted for working and studying. Almost similar scenarios can be observed in the unemployed sector, with 4% compared to 2% for further study and other options. However, there was a noteworthy gap in working in the health sector. Hospital nursing emerged as the most popular, attracting nearly 73% of graduates. Unlike that career, midwives and community nurses were the second and third most popular occupations among UK graduates, with respective figures of approximately 12.4% and 10.3%. Paramedic roles accounted for 1.3% of graduates, and mental nursing represented a mere 0.4%. The remaining 2.7% of graduates ventured into unspecified career options.