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The Casualisation of Nursing Jobs
A management response to having to do more with less
Carol Bradley
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Research into Nursing and Health Care, Faculty of Nursing, University of South Australia, SA
Abstract
Restructuring of health care has raised a number of issues affecting nurses and nursing which have been documented over the last half decade. However, comparatively little attention has been given to staffing arrangements, particularly in relation to casualisation. This empirical South Australian study identifies three management responses to the currently climate: working nurses harder, working smarter and casualising nursing jobs. The paper suggests that the identified trend to increasing casualisation, which is likely to point towards a national nursing labour market trend, needs to be considered in terms of cost and workload issues. It also suggests that the question of where responsibility for the professional development of casual nurses rests needs to be addressed.
Keywords
nursing man-power, part-time employment, temporary employment, personnel management
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