Impact of Public Policy on Nursing Employment: Providing the Evidence Journal Articles

abstract

• Due to economic instability, employment status has been shifting over time. Organizations have been moving toward a flexible contingent workforce. An early study of employment patterns demonstrated a significant rise in part-time and casual employment in the Ontario nursing workforce ( Baumann et al. 2006 ). The Nursing Graduate Guarantee, a public policy initiative, represents a substantial investment by the provincial government to stimulate full-time employment. This article presents the results of a trend analysis of nurse employment. Results indicated that stimulus funding attached to the public policy influenced employment of new graduate nurses.

authors

• Baumann, Margaret Andrea
• Hunsberger, Mabel
• Crea-Arsenio, Mary

status

• published 

publication date

• June 2012

has subject area

• 1605 Policy and Administration (FoR)
• Economics (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Public Policy/ Analyse de Politiques  Journal

keywords

• Business & Economics
• Economics
• Public Administration
• Social Sciences
• employment
• nursing workforce
• public policy
• stimulus funding
• workforce integration

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.3138/cpp.38.2.167

start page

• 167

end page

• 179

volume

• 38

issue

• 2