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Factors Influencing Female Registered Nurses' Work Behavior.Authors:

Brewer, Carol S.1

Kovner, Christine T.2

Yow-Wu Wu3

Greene, William4Yu Liu

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Reimers, Cordelia W.6

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Health Services Research. May2006 Part 1, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p860-886. 27p. 4 Charts.

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Article

Subject Terms:

*NURSING

*NURSES

*MEDICAL personnel

*ABILITY, Influence of age on

*EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory)*AGE & employment

*MEDICAL care

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Keywords:

health care organizations and systems

health workforce: distribution/incomes/training

labor economics

nursing

Nursing supply and demand

organization theory

salaries and wages

Objective. To analyze factors that are related to whether registered nurses (RNs) work (WK) or do not

work (NW) in nursing; and if the RN works, whether she works full- (FT) or part-time (PT). Data

Sources. Secondary data from National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses 2000 (NSSRN), theInterStudy Competitive Edge Part III Regional Market Analysis (2001), and the Area Resource File

(2002). Study Design. Using a cross-sectional design we tested the relationship between WK or NW

and FT or PT; and demographic, job-related, and metropolitan statistical area (MSA)-level variables.

Data Collection/Extraction Methods. We combined the data sources noted above to produce the

analytic sample of 25,471 female RNs. Principal Findings. Working in nursing is not independent of

working FT or PT. Age (55 and older), other family income, and prior other work experience in health

care are negatively related to working as an RN. The wage is not related to working as an RN, but

negatively influences FT work. Age, children, minority status, student status, employment status, other


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income, and some job settings have a negative impact on working FT. Previous health care work has a

positive effect on whether married RNs worked. Married RNs who are more dissatisfied are less likely

to work FT. A greater number of market-level factors influence FT/PT than WK/NW behavior.

Conclusions. An important contribution of this study is demonstrating that MSA-level variables

influence RN work behavior. The market environment seems to have little effect on whether a nurse

works, but is influential on how much the nurse works, and has differential effects on married versus

single nurses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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1Associate Professor, University at Buffalo School of Nursing, 918 Kimball Tower, Buffalo, NY 14214

2Professor, College of Nursing, New York University, New York City, NY

3Associate Professor, University at Buffalo School of Nursing, Buffalo NY

4Professor, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University, New York, NY

5University at Buffalo Department of Economics, Buffalo, NY

6Professor Emerita, Department of Economics, New York City, NY

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