title: Emergence of the free agent nurse workforce.
abstract: The health care world is changing rapidly and so is its workforce. As nurses are welcomed as copartners in care delivery and design, a new relationship between employer and employee is forged. Nurses who see themselves as free agents, working in partnership with their employers, function within a very different employment relationship than in past years. The concept of free agency is more familiar to nurses in the Generation X age cohort but is of great interest to all nurses and nurse administrators. Free agency is more of a mindset than an employment status and is explored in this article.
authors.affiliation: Manion & Associates, Oviedo, Florida, USA.
authors.forename: Jo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Manion
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D003284:Contract Services; D004651:Employment / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D017008:Negotiating; D009729:Nursing / Q000639:trends*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014481:United States