Utilize the concept of stickiness to examine the retention of community nurses across time and draw comparisons by subsector, nurse group and work status.

To evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse retention strategy, the “70% Full-Time Commitment”, in retaining part-time and casual nurses in Ontario's nurse profession.

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...