Career paths of nursing professionals : a study of employment mobility / Robert D. Hiscott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hiscott, Robert Dennis, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nurses--Employment--Ontario.

Nurses.

Occupational mobility--Ontario.

Occupational mobility.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ottawa : Carleton University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A "snapshot" of key labour force and market issues in the nursing field, the study provides important baseline data from which the impact of present and future public policy trends and changes can be monitored, reviewed, and researched. The dimensions studied here include recent demographic shifts, the various forms of employment mobility, levels of voluntarism, career interruption, and nurses' reasons for leaving the field. Each line of inquiry raises pressing questions about the professional lives of those who work most directly and dynamically with patients but whose careers are being altered, perhaps detrimentally, by reorganization in the Canadian health care system. This book will be of great interest to nursing practitioners, educators and administrators, allied practitioners and policy makers, and social scientists with an interest in the labour market, work, occupations, and professions.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Tables

Charts

Acknowledgements

Nursing Employment Key Concepts and Framework

A Statistical Portrait of Nursing Professionals and Their Jobs

An Overview of Employment Mobility of Nursing Professionals

Reasons for Leaving Jobs

Vertical Mobility Changes in Occupational Status

Other Modes of External Mobility

Career Interruptions / Unemployment Spells

Leaving the Nursing Field Role-Exit Experiences

Conclusions and Implications

Appendix: Survey Research Methodology

Bibliography

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-7735-7411-5

OCLC:

180704147