Background: Health care is a labour-intensive industry and nursing represents a high proportion of these labour costs. In response to fiscal constraints, payers have attempted to constrain costs; in return, provider organizations have sought to reduce their labour costs by shifting from...

Workplaces vary in their ability to recruit and retain workers. We introduce two new concepts which can be used as proxy measures of the relative attractiveness of a particular setting, where setting can be defined narrowly (e.g., a particular organization) or broadly (e.g., a sub-sector)....