An ageing nursing workforce.
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چکیده
There are well documented workforce shortages in nursing. Many strategies have been suggested to resolve the issue, including increasing migration or training places, changing skill mix or nurses' roles, redesigning nursing work, and greater use of unregulated or unlicensed workers. One of the contributing and growing factors is the ageing of the workforce, but methods of retaining older employees have been given very little attention.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Australian health review : a publication of the Australian Hospital Association
دوره 34 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010