Publisher's Synopsis
The book provides the definitive profile of the UK nursing workforce and highlights key issues facing nurses at work. It examines trends in employment and deployment of nurses and nursesÆ attitudes to work, since the mid 1980s. It highlights the many changes that have occurred in the profession with a particular emphasis on recruitment, retention and utilisation of nurses in the National Health Service. Future trends in nursing employment are also examined. - - The book makes extensive use of data collected from official sources and draws heavily from surveys of nurses conducted for the Royal College of Nursing. These surveys provide a unique source of information on the work based experiences of nurses at a time of significant change in health care organization in the UK. - -
