An ageing nursing workforce

An ageing nursing workforce.

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 employ...

Developing a Strategic Approach for Managing an Ageing Workforce

As is the case in many developed countries around the world, Australia is experiencing the ageing of its population. The increasing number of older workers in Australia and many other industrialised nations presents an unprecedented challenge for employers, the economy, and for individual workers. The human resource management (HRM) challenges related to attracting and retaining older workers h...

Editorial: The ageing nursing workforce: how can we avoid a retirement brain drain?

Nursing’s ageing workforce is the subject of increasing discussion and debate (Watson 2005, Lavoie-Tremblay et al. 2006). There are expectations of widespread retirements in the near future (Eley et al. 2007) and many areas and nursing specialties are threatened by the expected loss of large numbers of their workforce to retirement. This threat is true for clinical nurses (Halcomb et al. 2008),...

Downsizing the hospital nursing workforce.

TH E H O SP I T AL I N D U STR Y I N the United States is undergoing widespread reorganization that includes restructuring of the workforce. Surveys reveal that nurses now working in hospitals have serious concerns about the impact of such staffing changes on quality of care and the safety of patients. Media coverage of changes taking place in hospitals and hospital care echoes nurses’ warnings...

The ageing workforce--challenges for occupational health.