Casualisation in the nursing workforce - the need to make it work

Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 45-51

  Becker, Susanne ^a   McCutcheon, Helen ^a   Hegney, Desley ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Casualisation; Flexibility; Non standard work; Nursing workforce

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049259671     PISSN: 08130531     EISSN: 14474328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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