Engelsk titel: Does nursing have to be a part-time profession?
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Författare:
Ingstad, Kari
;
Kvande. Elin
Email: kari.ingstad@hint.no
Språk: Nor
Antal referenser: 35
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 11113860
Sammanfattning
Fifty percent of Norway’s nursing workforce in elderly care work part time. This article investigates how part-time employment has been normalized within the nursing profession in Norway, and it discusses whether nursing needs to be a part-time profession also in the future. We found that nurses seem to accept that the work has to be organized with part-time employees. The nurses argued that a high share of part-time positions is necessary to meet the demand for nursing personnel on weekends. Further, it is argued that employers need a flexible workforce, available on short notice to fill gaps suddenly arising in the shift plan due to illness, etc. In this way the professional culture justifies a high rate of part-time employees. Several research projects point at different ways of organizing the workforce in such a way that more nurses work full time. This article therefore suggests that employers and employees need to compromise to solve this problem.