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Employee Health (employee + health)
Selected AbstractsNursing leadership and management effects work environmentsJOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2009ANN MARRINER TOMEY PhD Aim, The aim of this literature search was to identify recent research related to nursing leadership and management effects on work environment using the 14 forces of magnetism. Background, This article gives some historical perspective from the original 1983 American Academy of Nursing study through to the 2002 McClure and Hinshaw update to 2009 publications. Evaluation, Research publications were given a priority for references. Key issues, The 14 forces of magnetism as identified by Unden and Monarch were: ,1. Quality of leadership,, 2. Organizational structure,, 3. Management style,, 4. Personnel policies and programs,, 5. Professional models of care,, 6. Quality of care,, 7 Quality improvement,, 8. Consultation and resources,, 9. Autonomy,, 10. Community and the hospital,, 11. Nurse as teacher,, 12. Image of nursing,, 13. Interdisciplinary relationships, and 14. Professional development,.'. Conclusions, Correlations have been found among positive workplace management initiatives, style of transformational leadership and participative management; patient-to-nurse ratios; education levels of nurses; quality of patient care, patient satisfaction, employee health and well-being programmes; nurse satisfaction and retention of nurses; healthy workplace environments and healthy patients and personnel. Implications for nursing management, This article identifies some of the research that provides evidence for evidence-based nursing management and leadership practice. [source] Occupational stress in (inter)action: the interplay between job demands and job resourcesJOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR, Issue 5 2005Natasja van Vegchel The present study addresses theoretical issues involving different interaction effects between job demands and job resources, accompanied by a thorough empirical test of interaction terms in the demand,control (DC) model and the effort,reward imbalance (ERI) model in relation to employee health and well-being (i.e., exhaustion, psychosomatic health complaints, company-registered sickness absence). Neither the DC model nor the ERI model gives a clear theoretical rationale or preference for a particular interaction term. Hierarchical regression analyses were conducted among 405 nursing home employees and cross-validated in a comparable sample (N,=,471). Results including cross-validation showed that only a multiplicative interaction term yielded consistent results for both the DC model and the ERI model. Theoretical as well as empirical results argue for a multiplicative interaction term to test the DC model and the ERI model. Future job stress research may benefit from the idea that there should be a theoretical preference for any interaction form, either in the DC model or in the ERI model. However, more research on interactions is needed to address this topic adequately. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Generalized Public Health and Industrial Nurses Work TogetherPUBLIC HEALTH NURSING, Issue 4 2009Margaret A. Schwem ABSTRACT Occupational health has been considered a subset of public health nursing for years. The first industrial or occupational health nurses were employed by large companies in the 1890s but the role evolved quickly in the early 20th century. By mid-century, many large companies employed a physician and nurse(s) to provide examinations, screenings, episodic care, and trauma intervention for workers. Occupational health nurses faced different problems than community-based public health nurses in generalized nursing service. The intersection of public health and employee health was apparent, though, because large industries often constituted the main workplace for a smaller community and sickness could spread throughout a town if the occupational health nurse was not well-prepared in principles of infection control and health promotion. Excerpts from this July 1949 article about building relationship between public health and industrial nurses illustrate the benefits hoped for when they were formally connected to one another through cross-training and in-service education. The author, Margaret Schwem, was a supervisor at the Rensselaer County Department of Health in Troy, New York. In the original article, Schwem included a list of reference materials for those interested in public health and industrial nursing. [source] Health-Care Reform and ESI: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Employment and Health InsuranceBUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW, Issue 3 2010PATRICIA C. FLYNN ABSTRACT The health-care reform promised by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of March 2010 continues our dependence on a central feature of the American health-care system: employer-sponsored insurance (ESI). In this article I will criticize the assumptions regarding market and welfare concerns on which this dependence is based and argue that efforts to mandate ESI ignore both the dynamics of the employment relation and the nature of health-care needs. A comparison between investing in employee education and investing in employee health will reveal the pragmatic challenges to ESI and the covert appeal to employer beneficence on which ESI rests. This paper argues that relying on ESI to guarantee appropriate care for a significant segment of the population is undesirable and unsustainable from both market and moral perspectives. [source] | |||||||||||||