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6Table of Contents (continued)9. Associations Between Variables………………………………………………………649.1. Associations Between Employment Patterns, Preferences, andDemographic Characteristics………………………………………………..649.2. Associations Between Stress, Burnout, and Employment Patterns andPreferences…………………………………………………………………..689.3. Associations Between Physical Health and Employment Patterns andPreferences…………………………………………………………………..729.4. Associations Between Commitment and Employment Patterns andPreferences…………………………………………………………………..769.5. Associations Between Job Satisfaction and Employment Patterns andPreferences…………………………………………………………………..799.6. Associations Between Propensity to Leave, Absenteeism,Employment Patterns and Preferences………………………………….…...839.7. Associations Between Commitment, Job Satisfaction, Propensity to Leave,and Stress and Burnout……………………………………………………...859.8. Associations Between Commitment and Job Satisfaction and Retention…..8710. Summary and Conclusions…………………………………………………………..89References………………………………………………………………………………..95
71. Introduction, Background and the Conceptual FrameworkThe world of work in Canada and most other industrialized countries has changedtremendously in the last few decades (Zeytinoglu 1999; 2002). A variety of non-standardemployment patterns such as part-time work, temporary (casual) work, and job sharing havebecome common in newly created jobs. Nursing work has also changed with many nurses nowemployed in part-time, casual and temporary jobs. In addition to the changes in employmentpatterns, there are nursing shortages and recruitment and retention problems in Canada, asdiscussed in the qualitative results section of this study (Bauman et al., forthcoming).The purpose of this report is to examine the effects of contemporary employmentarrangements on the quality of nursing work life, and the implications of these employmentarrangements for individual nurses, the nursing workplace, and also for the organization. Inexamining changing employment patterns in nursing, we focus on work statuses (full-time, parttimeor casual jobs), contract statuses (permanent or temporary) and employment conditions(hours of work, overtime, shiftwork, scheduling, pay and benefits) of nurses. Stress, burnout,and physical health problems are examined as factors affecting nurses’ and their employinghospitals’ outcomes. Nurse outcomes that we focus on are nurses’ commitment to their careersand hospitals, satisfaction with their jobs, diagnosed health problems and self-reportedmusculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Hospital outcomes examined here include absenteeismamong nurses and retention concerns.This report presents the survey results of our research project titled, “The New HealthCare Worker: The Implications of Changing Employment Patterns”. The study concentrated onnurses’ preferences for standard and non-standard employment arrangements. It investigatedhow the quality of nursing worklife and career choices differ for nurses in full-time, part-time
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