Reducing Work-related Stress in Nursing Personnel: Applying an Intervention

Work-related stress in nursing: Controlling the risk to health

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An intervention aimed at reducing plagiarism in undergraduate nursing students.

Plagiarism is a current and developing problem in the tertiary education sector where students access information and reproduce it as their own. It is identified as occurring in many tertiary level degrees including nursing and allied health profession degrees. Nursing specifically, is a profession where standards and ethics are required and honesty is paramount. The aim of this study was to ev...

An ergonomic approach to reducing back/shoulder stress in hospital nursing personnel: a five year follow up.

The purpose of the study was to determine the impact of an ergonomic program on perceived stress ratings, injury rates and patient care. After implementation of the ergonomic program, the perceived stress ratings by nursing staff were lower than those ratings at the control hospital and the patients felt more comfortable and secure during patient handling tasks than the patients at the control ...

Employment and conditions of work and life of nursing personnel.

An economic model of work-related stress

In this paper we present an economic model of optimal consumption and labour supply where we assume that working may generate stress which affects the wellbeing of the representative individual. As to stress we posit that it is influenced by cumulated past labour and capital. The latter reflects the fact that work-related stress evolves gradually over time and that it is more likely to occur in...