Improving outcomes: focus on workplace issues
| Autor: | Michael R. Silver, Ellen H. Elpern |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
biology
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Personnel Turnover Physician-Nurse Relations Dysfunctional family Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine Affect (psychology) Intensive care unit Job Satisfaction law.invention Intensive Care Units Nursing law Intensive care Toll Workforce biology.protein Humans Medicine Quality (business) Workplace business Burnout Professional media_common |
| Zdroj: | Current Opinion in Critical Care. 12:395-398 |
| ISSN: | 1070-5295 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/01.ccx.0000244116.31624.b3 |
| Popis: | Staff satisfaction has not traditionally been included as an intensive care unit quality indicator. The process of providing intensive care may profoundly affect clinicians. Dysfunctional encounters with coworkers and ethical burdens may extract a considerable personal toll and affect work attitudes and performance.Mounting evidence indicates that psychosocial tensions, burnout and ethical stress are common and serious problems in the intensive care unit. These experiences impact negatively on job satisfaction, turnover, workplace disruption and patient care. Addressing workplace issues will help improve quality of care.Two common sources of staff dissatisfaction are examined. Improving staff satisfaction can improve unit performance, and serve to attract and retain quality clinicians. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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