Prestige: Key to Job Satisfaction for Community Health Nurses

Riordan, Jan

doi:10.1111/j.1525-1446.1991.tb00744.x

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“…Sex and age were not related to job satisfaction. Riordan (1991) found a weak positive correlation between job satisfaction and age, years of work, years on job in community and home health nurses. The difference in satisfaction between the types of nurses in community nursing has also been shown in the study by Wade (1993), and in the meta‐analysis of Blegen (1993).…”

Section: Hypothetical Modelmentioning

confidence: 87%

Changes in the Work and Motivation of Staff Delivering Home Care Services in Finland

Laamanen

Broms²,

Häppölä³

et al. 1999

Public Health Nursing

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This article describes how the policy to emphasize noninstitutional care is reflected in home care service strategies and work characteristics as well as the work motivation of home care staff in Finland. The data were gathered through a questionnaire answered by 312 employees in home care services and 22 social welfare and primary health care administrators. The methods of analysis used were cross-tabulations, one-way analysis of variance, and regression analysis. According to the results, institutional care had been reduced too fast and home care services had not been developed sufficiently. Most of the staff reported that their work had changed considerably. Although their work had become more interesting and more independent, over one third of the employees felt that the pressure of work had become unbearable and their responsibility was too heavy. The views of the home care staff differed from those of the administrators regarding the change strategies that had been carried out. The majority of the staff were moderately or highly motivated. Thirty-four percent of the variance of work motivation was explained mainly by work characteristics. More attention should be paid to the development of home care services before institutional care is reduced. Training the staff and informing them about the planned reform should not be neglected.

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Section: Hypothetical Modelmentioning

confidence: 87%

Changes in the Work and Motivation of Staff Delivering Home Care Services in Finland

Laamanen

Broms²,

Häppölä³

et al. 1999

Public Health Nursing

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“…Researchers have investigated the job satisfaction of community health nurses in general (Boswell, 1992;Jansen et al, 1996;Riordan, 1991;Stewart & Arklie, 1994) as well as the job satisfaction of public health nurses (Beall, Baumhover, Gillum, & Wells, 1994;Campbell, Fowles, & Weber, 2004;Cumbey & Alexander, 1998;Lucas, McCreight, Watkins, & Long, 1988) and home care nurses (Curreri, Gilley, Faulk, & Swansburg, 1985;Lynch, 1994;Shuster, 1992). Only one study, conducted in the United States, was found that compared the job satisfaction of public and home health care nurses.…”

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Concerns, Satisfaction, and Retention of Canadian Community Health Nurses

Armstrong‐Stassen¹,

Cameron²

2005

Journal of Community Health Nursing

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This study of Canadian community health nurses (N = 1,044) compared the work-related concerns, job satisfaction, and factors influencing the retention of public health, home care, and community care access center (CCAC) nurses. Community health nurses identified similar work-related issues as being of greatest concern to them, but there were significant differences among the 3 groups of nurses in the magnitude of these concerns. There were also significant differences among the 3 groups for satisfaction with their jobs and their immediate supervisors, with CCAC nurses being the least satisfied except for the greater dissatisfaction of home care nurses with their pay and benefits. For the retention factors, the differences were primarily in the areas of job features and supportive work relationships. There are both similarities and differences among public health, home care, and CCAC nurses. Initiatives to address community health nurses' concerns, improve their job satisfaction, and increase their retention will require interventions tailored to the specific community health care setting.

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“…Hackman and Oldman (1980) contend that organisational type is an important factor when attempting to assess employees' perceptions of the workplace and the findings of this study appear to bear this out. Riordan (1991) reported that community health nurses who were satisfied with their work role were also satisfied with their social interactions with other health personnel, their professional autonomy, their professional prestige and the organisational requirements of the community setting. In addition, Riordan reported that community health nurses perceived their tasks to be highly related to the importance of their position.…”

Section: Differences In Professional Relationships and Work Role: Permentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is also a new finding warranting further discussion. As Riordan (1991) points out, most research in this area has been limited to samples of hospital nurses. The expansion of the role of the community health nurse over the last decade has provided an organisational structure different from that of the traditional hospital setting (Akroyd et al 1994).…”

Section: Differences In Professional Relationships and Work Role: Permentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The nursing literature has tended to focus on workplace roles and professional interactions arising within the hospital setting, where the majority of nurses have traditionally worked (for example, Duffield & Lumby 1994;Gropper 1994;Wilson-Barnett 1989). Issues of concern to non-hospital-based nurses have also received attention (for example, McMurray 1992;Riordan 1991), and a number of studies have examined differences in workplace roles and professional interactions between these health workers. Even comparing nurses working in different contexts, there appear to be differences in factors such as perceived status of the profession and perceived lack of control over working conditions (Palmer & Short 1989;Miller 1992).…”

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