Project Title: Where Do Nurses Work? Work Place and Work Setting

Research team:
Laporte, A.
Alameddine, M.
Baumann, A.
Blythe, J
Croxford, R
Deber, R.
Levinton, C
Mildon, B.
O'Brien-Pallas, L.
Underwood, J

Partners:
College of Nurses of Ontario
The Nursing Health Services Research Unit

This project examines the trends in the distribution of nurses across the various employment sub-sectors in Ontario for years 1993 to 2003. It received M-THAC seed funding from the Opportunities Fund, and then peer-reviewed CIHR funding. Elements of this research formed the basis of the PhD thesis of Mohamad Alameddine.

Among the contributions of this research is the development of two new measures - stickiness and inflow that can serve as a proxy measure for the relative attractiveness of the various employment sub-sectors for nurses. The methodology developed for this project is also being used in the CIHR Team grant to study other health care professionals.

Selected Presentations:

• October 2006 "Are Ontario Hospital Nurses Moving to Work in the Community?" The 5th International Nursing Health Services Research Unit Conference. Practice to Policy: Global Perspectives on Nursing. Hamilton, Ontario.
• September 2006 "Nurses outside Ontario's nursing Labour market: Where are they? How difficult is it to get them back?" Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research. Vancouver, B.C.
• May 2004 "Where do nurses work?" Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) first conference. Montreal, Quebec.
• May 2004 "Nursing: A sticky situation!" Canadian Association of Health Services and Policy Research (CAHSPR) first conference. Montreal, Quebec.
• A poster on this project was presented at the 2007 M-THAC/Team Symposium, Moving Care From Hospital To Community: Selected Policy and Service Implications Symposium.

Selected Publications:

• Alameddine, M., Laporte, A., Baumann, A. O'Brien-Pallas, L., Mildon, B., & Deber, R. (2006). Stickiness and inflow as proxy measures of the relative attractiveness of various sub-sectors of employment. Social Science and Medicine 63(9): 2310-2319.
  The definitive version can be found at Social Sciences and Medicine, http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/315/description#description

• Alameddine, M. (2006). Where Do Nurses Work? Employment Patterns of Ontario Nurses by Sub-Sector, 1993-2003. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Toronto.

• Alameddine, M., Laporte, A., Baumann, A. O'Brien-Pallas, L., Croxford, R., Mildon, B., Wang, S., Milburn, B., & Deber, R. (2006). Where are nurses working?: Employment patterns by sub-sector in Ontario, Canada. Healthcare Policy 3(1): 65-86.
  The definitive version can be found at Healthcare Policy, http://www.longwoods.com/home.php?cat=247

Related materials (Bonus Tracks):

• Alameddine, M., Underwood J., Baumann, A., Deber, R., & Laporte, A. (2005).
  Ontario visiting and homecare nurses. Fact sheet published by the Nursing Health Services Research Unit. Toronto, Ontario.

• Underwood, J., Alameddine, M., Baumann, A., Deber, R., & Laporte, A., & Dragan, A. (2007). Nurses in public health in Ontario. Fact sheet published by the Nursing Health Services Research Unit. Toronto, Ontario.