Vol. 31 No. 4 2005
Browse by
Recent Submissions
-
Increasing Retention of Nursing Staff at Hospitals: Aspects of Management and Leadership
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"In a previous study by Naude and McCabe, the factors that motivate nurses to remain working in a specific hospital were explored and described. From that research it was evident that there are factors related to leadership, ... -
Nurses' Voices
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"In this paper we analyse aspects of the qualitative data from open-ended questions included in the RN Survey 2002. We discuss the changes wrought by New Public Management (NPM) in the Australian and WA health sectors. We ... -
Nursing Careers: What Motivated Nurses to Choose their Profession?
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"This paper considers self-reported reasons for choosing to be a nurse and intentions related to remaining in the profession. The data are drawn from a survey of Western Australian Registered Nurses which was part of a ... -
Who’d be a Nurse? Some Evidence on Career Choice in Australia.
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"In the context of on-going shortages of nurses this paper looks at factors shaping the decision to enter nursing as a career. Evidence from three different Australian sources is drawn upon: a national panel survey of ... -
Registered Nurses: Who are They and What do They Want?
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"Using 1981 and 2001 Census data together with primary data from a 2002 survey of Registered Nurses (RNs) in Western Australia, this paper profiles the nurse workforce. Amongst other things the paper reports on a high level ... -
Choosing to be a Nurse, Remaining a Nurse and Leaving Nursing in Western Australia: Nursing Workforce Issues in the Twenty-first Century
(National Institute of Labour Studies, 2005)"The paper provides an introduction to a set of papers reporting on a research program in Western Australia designed to address issues relating to the choice to train for and become a nurse and aspects of the nursing ...