Advances in Contemporary Nurse Recruitment and Retention: Problems and Challenges in Human Capacity Development

Special Issue of Contemporary Nurse

Volume 24 Issue 2 April 2007

vi+130 pages ISBN 978-0-9757710-0-6

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Editors:

Margaret McMillan
Faculty of Health, University of Newcastle, NSW

Jane Conway
Organisational Education, Learning and Development, NSCCH, NSW

Advances in Contemporary Nurse Recruitment and Retention, a special issue of Contemporary Nurse, considers the possible and probable reasons for the nursing profession's world-wide crisis in recruitment and retention. This crisis, widely recognised as involving 'the worst nursing shortage in the last 50 years' (Hodges et al 2002), is having a significant and negative impact on health care and the capacities of health care systems around the world to respond appropriately, safely and effectively to the health needs of the individuals, groups and communities they serve.

These refereed research reports and literature reviews examine the significant challenges for practitioners working in such a climate, including:

  • Accessibility and sustainability of quality nursing services
  • Human resource management strategies for the retention of nurses
  • Access, equity, quality and viability of professional nursing services

Nursing's future is inextricably, and rightly so, bound to society's future and the future of health care (Bezold et al 1999: 8). In sum, securing the future of nursing through effective recruitment and retention is imperative.

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