Work-life of the Israeli registered nurse

Attitudes of 2325 active and inactive nurses to aspects of their work

“…Given the absence of a live register this trawling process would, therefore, appear to be another cost-effective means of making contact. It is similar to the process described by Bergman (1975) and further details of its efficacy across different cohorts can be found in Singh (1980). The proportion traced over a 21-year period is shown in Figure 1.…”

Comparisons of American, Israeli, Italian and Mexican physicians and nurses on the total and factor scores of the Jefferson scale of attitudes toward physician–nurse collaborative relationships

“…The cultural views on nurses' autonomy and their subordination in Italian (Sala and Manara, 1999;Sala and Usai, 1997) and Mexican ( Warda, 2000) cultures suggest that professional roles of physicians and nurses lean more toward hierarchical than complementary models. Israeli medical and nursing education is modeled after the United States' with similar contents in health care issues ( Bergman et al, 1975;Ehrenfeld et al, 1992;Ehrenfeld and Eckerling, 1995;Kater, 2000;Yagil et al, 2001). A complementary model of physician-nurse relationship is encouraged in medical and nursing education in these countries.…”

Predictors of intentions to leave the ward, the hospital, and the nursing profession: A longitudinal study

“…In addition to studying both internal and external turnover, we also examined a 'higher' and final level of withdrawal, namely, withdrawal from the profession or occupation altogether. Such an extreme manifestation of withdrawal is of serious concern in many communities due to the high turnover in the nursing profession, the ever-present nursing shortage, and the high costs involved in recruiting and filling vacant positions (Hinshaw, Smeltzer and Atwood, 1987;Bergman, Shavitt, Melamed and Ditzian, 1975). Organizational researchers have shown little interest in withdrawal from a professional field and studies that have discussed the issue dealt with it as a discrete behavior rather than within a wider context of progression context as proposed here (Fimian, Fastenau and Thomas, 1988;Lane, Mathews and Presholdt, 1988).…”