1st Edition
Why Nurses Remain in the Nursing Profession Insights and Perspectives
PART ONE
1. Introduction.
Margareth Kristoffersen
PART TWO
2. A Comprehensive Understanding of Nurses Remaining in the Profession – Development of a Model.
Margareth Kristoffersen
3. Theoretical Foundation of a Comprehensive Understanding of Nurses Remaining in the Profession.
Margareth Kristoffersen
4. Empirical Foundation of a Comprehensive Understanding of Nurses Remaining in the Profession.
Margareth Kristoffersen
PART THREE
5. Solidarity and Nursing Communities.
Margareth Kristoffersen
6. Problematizing Destructive Demands in Relationship-based Nursing Care. Margareth Kristoffersen and Febe Friberg
7. Explicating Boundaries of Care Responsibility.
Margareth Kristoffersen
8. Self-realization and Nursing Knowledge.
Margareth Kristoffersen and Febe Friberg
9. Professional Identity and the Choice to Remain in the Nursing Profession.
Margareth Kristoffersen
PART FOUR
10. Newly Graduated Nurses in a Tug of War.
Lovise Kyllingstad and Margareth Kristoffersen
11. Nurses in Home Healthcare Services and What is Essential for Remaining in Their Position.
Margareth Kristoffersen, Nille Østhus and Marianne Storm
12. Health Professionals’ Interactions with Mentally Ill Patients and What They Receive for Themselves when Remaining in Their Position.
Julie Frigstad and Margareth Kristoffersen
13. School Nurses and Self-realization.
Linda Horne Mæland, Margareth Kristoffersen and Bjørg Frøysland Oftedal
14. Nursing Leaders’ Grip to Retain Nurses in Nursing Homes.
Anne Marte Løvik, Linda Horne Mæland and Margareth Kristoffersen
15. Retaining Nurses in Nursing Homes – Nursing Leaders Facilitating Work Tasks to Nurses.
Thejes Thankam Thomas and Margareth Kristoffersen
PART FIVE
16. Concluding Remarks for the Future.
Margareth Kristoffersen
Biography
Margareth Kristoffersen is Professor Emerita in Nursing Science, The Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stavanger, Norway. She is a registered nurse and holds a PhD. Her research interests in the field of nursing have a specific focus on why nurses remain in their profession, leadership, and higher education, with an emphasis on how professionals studying at master’s and PhD levels develop their competence. Kristoffersen has broad experience in guidance and teaching in higher education.
