Downsizing and reorganization: demands, challenges and ambiguity for registered nurses

Hertting, Anna; Nilsson, Kerstin; Theorell, Töres; Larsson, Ullabeth Sätterlund

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2648.2003.02876.x

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“…[2] On the contrary, other studies have shown that there is a difficulty in engaging health care professionals in organizational improvements of care processes. [8][9][10][11] The literature also describes health care organizations' culture as characterized by limited trust and limited collaboration between different occupational groups and organizational levels. [12,13] Despite these hindering factors, there is potential to overcome these obstacles.…”

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Intention to leave among health care professionals: The importance of working conditions and social capital

Strömgren

2017

JHA

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Hospitals in Sweden are redesigning their care processes to increase efficiency. However, related to these changes, there is a risk of increased staff intention to leave and turnover due to increased workload and work pace. The literature on work engagement and job demands and resources suggests that specific job resources can buffer negative effects; i.e., intention to leave because of job demands. Social capital is suggested to have the potential to be a resource associated with staff intention to leave. The aim of this study was to investigate the associations between social capital and intention to leave and to test if social capital moderates the relationship between job demands and intention to leave. A sample of five hospitals working under conditions of improvements of care processes were studied using a questionnaire administered to the healthcare clinicians (n = 849). High levels of social capital were associated with low levels of intention to leave. However, the moderating effect of social capital was not confirmed. Intention to leave among occupational groups was influenced differently by social capital, other job resources, and job demands.

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Intention to leave among health care professionals: The importance of working conditions and social capital

Strömgren

2017

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“…Vahtera et al (2000) showed that good supervisor support was more important than good co-worker support. Further, Hertting, Nilsson, Theorell, and Larsson (2004) found that employees' job strain increased when managers failed to understand how the changes affected employees and their work; this led to employee frustration and lack of trust in management.…”

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The Experience and Practice of Social Support during Major Organizational Changes: The Case of the Bank Collapse in Iceland in 2008

Snorradóttir¹,

Rafnsdóttir²,

Aust³

2016

IJBM

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This study explored how Icelandic bank employees perceived and practiced social support in the wake of the economic crisis when the banks suddenly collapsed in 2008. Drawing on 20 interviews with bank employees, it was found that during stressful situations, employees referred to social support as one of the most important factors in overcoming the changes. The study points toward a complex picture of social support practices during organizational changes and underlines the importance of distinguishing between both nature and source of the social support in practice and in research.

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“…It is particularly important in professions that are both social and service oriented where contact with people suffering and seeking help is the key objective. Nursing satisfies all of these criteria [19]. Due to the high expectations for task orientation and the fact that nurses are seen as people predetermined to ceaselessly solve specific problems, the emotional aspect of their functioning is marginalized, ignored and sometimes perceived as undesired.…”

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Effects of perceived job social support on emotions experienced by nurses: the role of difficulties with patient care

Wlodarczyk¹,

Surma²

2013

Clinical Nursing Studies

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The focus of the presented research is the emotional state of nurses. It was considered in the context of difficulties with patient care that nurses come across in their daily professional work and in the context of social support perceived by them as available in their working environment. This research examines both promotive and protective effects of perceived job social support on the emotional state of nurses. The postulated intervening variable was difficulties with patient care experienced by nurses. The cross-sectional research group consisted of 100 nurses, 94% women, 50% working in hospitals and 50% in other health-care facilities, predominantly public (87%). Perceived social support at work and positive and negative emotions were measured with existing questionnaires (SSS-8 by Cieslak and POMS by McNair et al.). The difficulties with patient care were determined using an original tool developed by the researchers specially for this study (including six types of difficulties). To verify hypotheses, multiple regression analyses and a bootstrap approach was adopted. First, promotive effect of social support was confirmed in cases of practical and emotional support from Superiors. Second, perceived social support indirectly influenced nurses' negative emotions in the following way: practical social support from Doctors, Other Nurses and Team Members, intensified difficulties with patient care resulting from demand for information by patient and family that in turn increased negative emotions (protective effect was negative). The research provides valuable results for professional practice.

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Downsizing and reorganization: demands, challenges and ambiguity for registered nurses

Cited by 69 publications

References 25 publications

Intention to leave among health care professionals: The importance of working conditions and social capital

Intention to leave among health care professionals: The importance of working conditions and social capital

The Experience and Practice of Social Support during Major Organizational Changes: The Case of the Bank Collapse in Iceland in 2008

Effects of perceived job social support on emotions experienced by nurses: the role of difficulties with patient care

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