Sustainable Careers in Nursing: Focusing on Health, Happiness and Productivity

The purpose of this symposium is to illustrate factors resided on a personal and contextual level that effect the sustainability of a career in the nursing profession. Based on a systematic literature review, a quantitative and two qualitative empirical examinations, the papers refer to the individual level, the work-family intersection, the team and organizational context as well as the institutional context. The opening paper, Proactive Personality, Recovery Experiences, Stress and Turnover Intention of Registered Nurses, will provide insights about workplace demands and the role of proactive behavior on perceived stress of registered nurses based on a quantitative survey. The second paper, a qualitative study entitled “Who is On-Call to Take Care of my Kids?”: The Country and Occupation Contexts Enabling Informal Childcare and Nursing Careers, will explore the way in which nurses with little children manage their work-family balance. The third paper will be a qualitative study on Organizational Resources for Sustainable Careers in Nursing. The final paper Uniformity along the Way: A Scoping Review on basic Structures of Nursing Education in OECD Countries illustrates similarities and differences in nursing education based on a literature review. Altogether, the four papers aim to address a rich variety of individual and contextual layers for sustainable careers in nursing, and after the presentations our discussant is going to reflect on those and will come up with ideas for connecting the insights. Proactive Personality, Recovery Experiences, Stress, and Turnover Intention of Registered Nurses Presenter: Christine Brown Mahoney; Minnesota State U., Mankato Presenter: Marilyn L Fox; Minnesota State U. The Country and Occupation Contexts Enabling Informal Childcare and Nursing Careers Presenter: Wee Chan Au; Newcastle U. Business School Presenter: Melika Shirmohammadi; U. of Houston Presenter: Mina Beigi; Southampton Business School, U. of Southampton Organizational Resources for Sustainable Careers in Nursing Presenter: Markus Latzke; IMC Krems Presenter: Beatrice Van Der Heijden; Radboud U. Nijmegen Presenter: Harald Stummer; UMIT Tirol Presenter: Stephanie Kainrath; UMIT Tirol Uniformity Along the Way: Scoping Review on Basic Structures of Nursing Education in OECD Countries Presenter: Julia Van Kraaij; Radboud U. Medical Center Presenter: Hester Vermeulen; Spaarne Gasthuis Academy Presenter: Catharina Van Oostveen; Erasmus U. Rotterdam