Career Paths of Nursing Professionals : A Study of Employment Mobility

Table of Contents

• Cover 1
• Title 4
• Copyright 5
• Table of Contents 6
• List of Tables 9
• List of Charts 10
• Acknowledgements 11
• I. Nursing Employment: Key Concepts and Framework 14
• Nursing as a Profession 16
• Recent Labour-Market Conditions 19
• Future Demand for Nursing Professionals 27
• Problems Faced by the Nursing Profession 30
• Job Dissatisfaction 30
• Job Turnover 32
• Employment Mobility of Nursing Professionals 35
• Position Type or Job Title 37
• Employment Status 39
• Employment Place or Setting 41
• Primary Responsibility or Specialty Area 43
• Conclusion and Chapter Outline 44
• II. A Statistical Portrait of Nursing Professionals and Their Jobs 46
• The Socio-Demographic Profile 47
• Gender and Age Distributions 48
• Marital Status and Children 51
• Formal Education: Past, Present, and Future 53
• The Job Profile 56
• Total Number of Jobs Held 56
• Time Period of Jobs 58
• Geographic Location of Jobs 58
• Key Employment Attributes 60
• Position Type or Job Title 61
• Employment Status of Jobs 64
• Employment Place or Setting 65
• Primary Responsibility or Specialty Area 67
• The Move Away from Modal Employment Categories 70
• Working-Time Arrangements 73
• III. An Overview of Employment Mobility of Nursing Professionals 78
• External and Internal Mobility 79
• Job-Based Internal Employment Mobility 84
• Internal Employment Mobility and Job Duration 88
• Survival Functions for Job Duration 90
• IV. Reasons for Leaving Jobs 94
• General Profile of Reasons for Leaving Jobs 95
• Reasons for Leaving Jobs by Age 99
• Reasons for Leaving Jobs by Employment Characteristics 103
• Reasons Cited Over Employment Careers 107
• V. Vertical Mobility: Changes in Occupational Status 112
• Position-Type Mobility 113
• Position-Type Mobility by Cited Reasons for Leaving Prior Job 119
• Employment in Management Positions by Career Year 120
• Occupational-Status Changes by Employment-Place Changes 123
• Position-Type Career Profiles 127
• VI. Other Modes of External Mobility 130
• Employment-Status Mobility 130
• Employment-Place Mobility 134
• Primary-Responsibility Mobility 141
• Geographic Mobility 146
• VII. Career Interruptions / Unemployment Spells 150
• Career Durations and Interruptions 151
• Duration of Unemployment by Reasons for Leaving Prior Job 156
• Duration of Unemployment by Employment Mobility Between Jobs 161
• Role-Exit Process Leading to Current Career Interruptions 168
• VIII. Leaving the Nursing Field: Role-Exit Experiences 172
• Profile of Role-Exit Behaviour 173
• Role-Exit Behaviour by Career Stage 177
• Role-Exit Behaviour Across Job Transitions 178
• Role-Exit Behaviour by Reasons for Leaving Prior Jobs 180
• Role-Exit Behaviour by Working-Time Arrangements 183
• The Future Intentions of Nursing Professionals 186
• IX. Conclusions and Implications 190
• Labour Market Realities for Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses 191
• Empirical Findings on Employment Mobility 196
• Other Employment Mobility-Related Issues 203
• Conclusion 208
• Appendix: Survey Research Methodology 212
• Stratified Sample Design 212
• Active Nursing Professionals 213
• Transients 213
• Dual Professionals 214
• True Outsiders 214
• Sampling Frame 215
• Survey Research Execution 217
• Limitations of Retrospective Survey Research Design 219
• Potential Uses of Survey Data 220
• Telephone Survey Interview Protocol 221
• Introduction 222
• Employment History 223
• Last Employment Positions: Unemployed Nursing Professionals 227
• Current Employment Position: Employed Nursing Professionals 228
• Other Background Attributes 230
• Bibliography 232