Career Paths of Nursing Professionals : A Study of Employment Mobility.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Charts -- Acknowledgements -- I. Nursing Employment: Key Concepts and Framework -- Nursing as a Profession -- Recent Labour-Market Conditions -- Future Demand for Nursing Professionals -- Problems Faced by the Nursing Profession -- Job Dissatisfaction -- Job Turnover -- Employment Mobility of Nursing Professionals -- Position Type or Job Title -- Employment Status -- Employment Place or Setting -- Primary Responsibility or Specialty Area -- Conclusion and Chapter Outline -- II. A Statistical Portrait of Nursing Professionals and Their Jobs -- The Socio-Demographic Profile -- Gender and Age Distributions -- Marital Status and Children -- Formal Education: Past, Present, and Future -- The Job Profile -- Total Number of Jobs Held -- Time Period of Jobs -- Geographic Location of Jobs -- Key Employment Attributes -- Position Type or Job Title -- Employment Status of Jobs -- Employment Place or Setting -- Primary Responsibility or Specialty Area -- The Move Away from Modal Employment Categories -- Working-Time Arrangements -- III. An Overview of Employment Mobility of Nursing Professionals -- External and Internal Mobility -- Job-Based Internal Employment Mobility -- Internal Employment Mobility and Job Duration -- Survival Functions for Job Duration -- IV. Reasons for Leaving Jobs -- General Profile of Reasons for Leaving Jobs -- Reasons for Leaving Jobs by Age -- Reasons for Leaving Jobs by Employment Characteristics -- Reasons Cited Over Employment Careers -- V. Vertical Mobility: Changes in Occupational Status -- Position-Type Mobility -- Position-Type Mobility by Cited Reasons for Leaving Prior Job -- Employment in Management Positions by Career Year -- Occupational-Status Changes by Employment-Place Changes -- Position-Type Career Profiles.

VI. Other Modes of External Mobility -- Employment-Status Mobility -- Employment-Place Mobility -- Primary-Responsibility Mobility -- Geographic Mobility -- VII. Career Interruptions / Unemployment Spells -- Career Durations and Interruptions -- Duration of Unemployment by Reasons for Leaving Prior Job -- Duration of Unemployment by Employment Mobility Between Jobs -- Role-Exit Process Leading to Current Career Interruptions -- VIII. Leaving the Nursing Field: Role-Exit Experiences -- Profile of Role-Exit Behaviour -- Role-Exit Behaviour by Career Stage -- Role-Exit Behaviour Across Job Transitions -- Role-Exit Behaviour by Reasons for Leaving Prior Jobs -- Role-Exit Behaviour by Working-Time Arrangements -- The Future Intentions of Nursing Professionals -- IX. Conclusions and Implications -- Labour Market Realities for Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses -- Empirical Findings on Employment Mobility -- Other Employment Mobility-Related Issues -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Survey Research Methodology -- Stratified Sample Design -- Active Nursing Professionals -- Transients -- Dual Professionals -- True Outsiders -- Sampling Frame -- Survey Research Execution -- Limitations of Retrospective Survey Research Design -- Potential Uses of Survey Data -- Telephone Survey Interview Protocol -- Introduction -- Employment History -- Last Employment Positions: Unemployed Nursing Professionals -- Current Employment Position: Employed Nursing Professionals -- Other Background Attributes -- Bibliography.

This is the first and only comprehensive labour market study of the largest group of nursing professionals in any one province in Canada. It explores the career paths of more than 1600 registered nurses and registered practical nurses, using survey data collected in 1992-1993, just as these front line caregivers faced the sea change wrought by governmental restructuring in Ontario hospitals.

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