Connecting older female nurses' worklife issues to retirement.
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.
Keddy
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Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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