Summary information
Study title
Sick Children's Nurses : DHSS Study of the Career Patterns of RSCN's, 1980-1982
Creator
Hutt, R., Institute of Manpower Studies
Study number / PID
1937 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-1937-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
The aim of this survey was to find out what happened to RSCNs after they qualified, their subsequent careers, the reasons for their job decisions, and to suggest possible ways of retaining more of them in sick children's nursing.
Main Topics:
Variables
Age, sex, home town, qualifications, choice of training school, job history and present post, attitudes, job preferences, reasons for leaving sick children's nursing, career advice, career intentions, suggestions as to how shortages of RSCNs might be overcome.
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1980 - 01/12/1982
Country
England and Wales
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Individuals
Groups
National
Nurses
Universe
Registered sick children's nurses qualified since 1957
Sampling procedure
One-stage stratified or systematic random sample
stratified by date of qualification
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Postal survey
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1983
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Hutt, R. (1981) 'RSCNs: where they go and why', Nursing Times
- Hutt, R. (1982) Sick children's nurses, Brighton: IMS.