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Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice
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Nurses Working Outside of Nursing

Societal Trend or Workplace Crisis?

Lisa Black, PhD, RN

University of Nevada, Reno, lblack{at}unr.edu

Joanne Spetz, PhD

University of California, San Francisco

Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN

University of California, San Francisco

The phenomenon of career inactivity in professional nursing has been historically portrayed in the literature as a major cause of disequilibrium in the registered nurse labor market. However, there remains a general lack of understanding of the diverse forces that shape the inactive nurse pool and the likelihood that this population will return to nursing. The purpose of this study was to examine the population of registered nurses who are active in the labor market but work in nonnursing employment. Specifically, this study sought to determine the relative importance of nonworkplace- and workplace-related reasons for working outside of nursing. The results demonstrate that dissatisfaction with the nursing workplace is the key reason cited by actively licensed nurses for working outside of nursing employment. These findings suggest that policy and employer remedies are needed to improve the nursing workplace.

Key Words: nursing labor market • labor market inactivity • nurses working in nonnursing • nurse retention • nursing work environment • nursing workplace dissatisfaction

This version was published on August 1, 2008

Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice, Vol. 9, No. 3, 143-157 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1527154408319288
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