An empowering clinical nurse advancement system can facilitate institutional behaviors that embrace all of AACN's healthy work environment standards and thus serve as a building block for developing a flourishing health care environment. The results generate positive outcomes that are evident to health care professionals, patients, patients' families, and health care organizations. Patients ben...

M ost businesses would seize an opportunity to attain high-quality health promot ion services that help keep employees healthy and result in fewer days lost to illness or injur)' and reduced medical claims and hospitalizations. Hut four years ago Everett, WA-based Providence Hospital ran into roadblocks when staff approached Pugct Sound businesses about contracting for the hospital's health-rel...

Creating healthy workplaces is becoming more common. Half of employers that have more than 50 employees offer some type of workplace health promotion program. Few employers implement comprehensive evidence-based interventions that reach all employees and achieve desired health and cost outcomes. A few organization-level assessment and benchmarking tools have emerged to help employers evaluate t...

Strong and vibrant small businesses are a key to a healthy economy. Small businesses respond well to customer needs and allow an economy to adapt easily to changing circumstance. In addition, small businesses provide a major portion of employment in the U.S. economy: in 1994, businesses with fewer than 100 employees provided 55 percent of all jobs in the nation.1 Of course, some states are more...

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates (Harvard Vanguard) is a nonprofit multi-specialty medical group providing care to 495,000 adult and pediatric patients at more than 21 offices across eastern Massachusetts. As an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, Harvard Vanguard physicians are on the staff of Boston’s academic medical centers and community hospitals. Harvard Vanguard’s 4,300 employees, in...

Although legionnaires' disease frequently is acquired in health care institutions, little is known about the occupational risk of Legionella infection among health care workers. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to analyse antibody levels among exposed hospital workers and to determine the correlation between antibodies to Legionella and self-reported symptoms. The study included...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of an organizational large-scale intervention applied to induce a health-promoting organizational change process. DESIGN AND METHODS A quasi-experimental, "as-treated" design was used. Regression analyses on data of employees of a Dutch dairy company (n = 324) were used to examine the effects on bonding social capital, openness, and autonomous motivation...

PURPOSE This study examined the factors that predict employees' perceptions of procedural justice in university settings. The paper also reviews the ethical aspects of justice and psychological contracts within employment relationships. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH The study examined the predictors of perceived procedural justice in a two-wave longitudinal sample of 945 employees from 13 unive...

Musculoskeletal (MS) pain is highly prevalent in the working population, often resulting in chronic disability. Burnout represents accumulated exposure to work-related stresses and therefore could predict the incidence of MS pain. We investigated prospectively the extent to which changes in the levels of burnout over time predict new cases of MS pain. Participants were 1,704 apparently healthy ...