Nursing and midwifery workforce 2011

作者：Ian Titulaer · 年份：2012 · 被引用次数：138 · 研究领域：Global Health Workforce Issues

This report presents information on the nursing and midwifery workforce, based primarily on estimates derived from the National Health Workforce Data Set: nurses and midwives 2011, the first in this new series. The data set contains information on the demographic and employment characteristics of nurses and midwives who were registered in Australia in 2011. Data are collected via registration forms and a survey instrument administered by the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, in conjunction with the annual registration renewal process for nurses and midwives. The workforce consists of midwifery and nursing professionals, midwives, registered nurses, nursing educators and researchers, and enrolled and mothercraft nurses. Key findings include: in 2011, the total number of nurses and midwives registered in Australia was 326,669, a 6.8 per cent increase since 2007; nursing and midwifery continued to be a female-dominated profession, with women comprising 90.1 per cent of employed nurses and midwives in 2011; the average age increased between 2007 and 2011 (from 43.7 to 44.5 years); the average weekly hours worked by employed nurses and midwives decreased from 33.3 hours in 2007 to 32.8 hours in 2011; and of all employed clinical nurses and midwives, almost two thirds (65.3 per cent) worked in hospitals.