The tasks of psychiatric nurses in long-term residential settings in the Netherlands

Melchior, M. E. W.; Berg, Andre V.D.; Gassman, P.; Abu‐Saad, Huda Huijer; Halfens, Ruud J.G.; Philipsen, H.

doi:10.1016/0020-7489(95)00031-r

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“…Based on a task inventory by Dassen (1989), Borgesius et al . (1988 ) and a number of interviews with nurses working in long‐stay settings conducted by the researchers, a questionnaire was constructed to describe the concrete tasks of nurses working in long‐stay nursing ( Melchior et al. 1995 ).…”

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The effects of primary nursing on work‐related factors

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Halfens

Abu‐Saad

et al. 1999

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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This study investigates the effects of a primary nursing care delivery system on some work-related factors of nurses in long-stay psychiatric care settings. In a quasi-experimental research design a cohort of 176 nurses was followed for 2.5 years. Results showed that as a result of primary nursing the primary nurses found more autonomy in their work and experienced it to be less complex. Furthermore, primary nurses performed personal care tasks less frequently and worked more according to a patient-oriented care model. Several additional analyses were performed owing to the two main problems encountered in this study, namely a high dropout due to job turnover among nurses and the imitation of the intervention by the control group.

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“…So the questionnaire did not measure the amount of time the nurse spent on a task, but the frequency with which the task was performed. Principal components analysis yielded a classification into four task dimensions: personal care tasks, psycho‐social tasks, household tasks and organizational tasks ( Melchior et al. 1995 ).…”

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The effects of primary nursing on work‐related factors

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Halfens

Abu‐Saad

et al. 1999

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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Burnout and the work environment of nurses in psychiatric long-stay care settings

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Berg

Halfens³

et al. 1997

Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol

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The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between burnout and a number of work-related factors among nurses working in psychiatric long-stay care settings. Another aim was to investigate the differences between these associations at individual and at group level. Differences were found in the correlations, as well as in the regression analyses, at individual and group level. The correlations between burnout and the independent variables were more often significant at individual level and the explained variances of the regression analyses were much higher at ward than at individual level. Results showed that work environments associated with low levels of burnout were those in which workers had good support and feedback, job clarity, autonomy and low levels of complexity in their work, who had managers with a social leadership style and who had realistic expectations about their patients' potential for rehabilitation. Furthermore, it was found that it was not the individual work experience of the nurse that was important in determining burnout, but the mean work experience of the nursing staff.

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