Choosing a nursing specialty: connection to nursing students' personality traits, clinical self-efficacy, adoption of technology changes, and specialty prestige; a cross-sectional study.

Despite the gradual aging of the population and the increase in chronic morbidity, which demand a greater nursing focus on older adults, and notwithstanding the mental health reforms, nursing students perceive geriatrics and mental health as less prestigious fields. A career development path can be applied by developing a tool for occupational guidance designed to rank students' suitability for specialty fields and thus help them choose the area that best suits them.