Prospective Drivers of Nurses’ Partial or Complete Retirement Seven Years Later

Work Ability and Physical Functioning Going against the Tide of Age

Datos Bibliográficos

ID15512964
AutoresJohn Rodwell (0000-0003-1682-0719, Swinburne University of Technology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen19
Número18
Páginas11159-11159
Fecha de publicación2022-09-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601
EditorialMultidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3390/ijerph191811159
PMID36141432
OpenAlexW4295064745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas25

In the context of a nursing shortage in many developed countries, one option for retaining the expertise of older nurses in the workforce is to better manage the retirement of nurses. This study will investigate life course predictors of actual retirement behavior, whether partial or complete, for older working nurses over a seven-year span. Data were analyzed from a quantitative, longitudinal survey of 178 Australian nurses aged 45 years and older working at Time 1 (2012), who responded seven years later (Time 2). Age predicted both forms of retirement behavior, confirming the strength of social normative pressures toward retirement. Moving against this social normative tide toward retirement were the predictors of partial retirement such as job satisfaction, physical functioning and work ability. In turn, working part-time was the only predictor, beyond age, of complete retirement. Nurse and health service managers could support nurses to stand against the tide of social normative pressures (until such social norms change) by managing the nurses' physical functioning and work ability, including by more explicitly managing the impacts of chronic diseases in the workplace, not least so as to retain their nurses in the context of nurse shortages

Aging in the American workforce · Business · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Normative · Nurse education · Nursing shortage · Political science · Retirement age · Social support · Work (physics · Workforce · Employment and Welfare Studies · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being · Finance · Gerontology