title: Connecting older female nurses' worklife issues to retirement.
abstract: What are the worklife issues of significance to older nurses and to what extent will they influence retirement decisions? In Canada, the recent push toward obtaining a baccalaureate degree before the year 2000 has resulted in extraordinary pressures for older nurses and brought about divisions within the profession--age and experience being important variables in this conflict.
authors.affiliation: Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Keddy
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003657:Decision Making; D004508:Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate; D004651:Employment / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D012179:Retirement / Q000523:psychology*; D014931:Women, Working