TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring why nurses transition from acute care to primary health care employment
AU - Ashley, Christine
AU - Halcomb, Elizabeth
AU - Brown, Angela
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Nursing in PHC settings has not generally been viewed as a positive career move, with previous studies reporting negative aspects associated with nursing in PHC and their influence on job satisfaction (Ashley, Halcomb, & Brown, 2016). These include perceived skill loss, poor wages, and sub-optimal professional opportunities compared with acute care roles (Curtis & Glacken, 2014; Halcomb et al., 2014, Halcomb & Ashley, 2017). There is also limited literature which specifically explores the reasons why nurses disengage from often long held acute care roles to transition to PHC employment (Ashley et al., 2016). It is timely, therefore, to develop an evidence base relating to the process of transition from acute to PHC employment to inform future recruitment strategies and transition support programs.
AB - Nursing in PHC settings has not generally been viewed as a positive career move, with previous studies reporting negative aspects associated with nursing in PHC and their influence on job satisfaction (Ashley, Halcomb, & Brown, 2016). These include perceived skill loss, poor wages, and sub-optimal professional opportunities compared with acute care roles (Curtis & Glacken, 2014; Halcomb et al., 2014, Halcomb & Ashley, 2017). There is also limited literature which specifically explores the reasons why nurses disengage from often long held acute care roles to transition to PHC employment (Ashley et al., 2016). It is timely, therefore, to develop an evidence base relating to the process of transition from acute to PHC employment to inform future recruitment strategies and transition support programs.
KW - clinical practice
KW - employment
KW - intensive care nursing
KW - nurses
KW - primary health care
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:42907
U2 - 10.1016/j.apnr.2017.09.002
DO - 10.1016/j.apnr.2017.09.002
M3 - Article
VL - 38
SP - 83
EP - 87
JO - Applied Nursing Research
JF - Applied Nursing Research
ER -