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TY - JOUR
T1 - Nursing the statistics
T2 - a demonstration study of nurse turnover and retention
AU - Barry, Jon
AU - Soothill, Keith
AU - Francis, Brian
PY - 1989/7
Y1 - 1989/7
N2 - This paper demonstrates how a health authority can use personnel records of nurses' working histories as an effective tool in manpower planning. Suggestions are given as to how these histories might be analysed and interpreted. Methods described range from the use of simple summary statistics and graphical methods to advanced statistical modelling techniques. Data from a study by researchers at the Centre for Applied Statistics and Department of Sociology at Lancaster University are used to give examples of these approaches. A description is also given of the practical difficulties experienced when attempting to extract the appropriate data from the health authority's personnel records.
AB - This paper demonstrates how a health authority can use personnel records of nurses' working histories as an effective tool in manpower planning. Suggestions are given as to how these histories might be analysed and interpreted. Methods described range from the use of simple summary statistics and graphical methods to advanced statistical modelling techniques. Data from a study by researchers at the Centre for Applied Statistics and Department of Sociology at Lancaster University are used to give examples of these approaches. A description is also given of the practical difficulties experienced when attempting to extract the appropriate data from the health authority's personnel records.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01587.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01587.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 528
EP - 535
JO - Journal of Advanced Nursing
JF - Journal of Advanced Nursing
SN - 0309-2402
IS - 7
ER -