BACKGROUND Nurses make up the largest component of the health workforce and provide the majority of patient care. Most health education is delivered by nurses, who also serve as healthy living and behavioural role models. Anything that diminishes their health status can impact their credibility as role models, their availability and ability to deliver quality care, and is potentially disadvanta...

Hospital nurses, particularly Registered Nurses, differ from many other types of worker because they do sex-typed work and occupy an ambiguous social position. Nearly all of them are female employees subordinated to mainly male superiors; they are trained to see themselves as professionals but unable to exercise the degree of autonomy enjoyed by physicians and lawyers. This ambiguity has led to...

The aims of the study were to describe nurses' positions on nursing process and their perception of power; and to analyse associations between positions on nursing process, power perception and selected variables. One thousand six hundred and five nurses (86.9% female, mean age=44.12 years, SD=9.55) participated in the study. Mean score on the Positions on Nursing Process (PNP) tool was 112.37 ...

Using a social exchange framework, we examined the relationship of work status (in)congruency with organization-specific and job-specific aspects of perceived employer commitment and with nurses’ commitment to their organization, to their job, and to their profession. The participants were 1,230 female nurses employed in community health agencies in Canada. Part-time nurses preferring full-time...

In the clinical setting of nursing, nurses play a specific role. Most nurses are female and as a part of their duty, perform hard work and face stressful situations, problems, and risks. An important problem worth mentioning is the harassment of nurses, an expected problem as most nurses are female. However, unfortunately, this has become a forgotten issue. In developing countries such as Thail...

purpose: body image is a person’s body shape in his/her mind. negative body image is associated   with low self-esteem, depression, eating disorder and body dimorphic disorder. the aim of   this study was to investigate the role of body image on sexual performance of married women   nurses in tehran.   materials and methods: in this correlation study, 200 married women nurses working in public ...

This study examined the effect of social support on burnout in nurses of People with AIDS (PWAs). A sample of 80 female registered nurses (RNs) completed the House and Wells Social Support Questionnaire, which measures supervisor, co-worker, friend/relative, and spouse/partner support, and the Maslach Burnout Inventory, which defines burnout in terms of Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between stress, shift work, and eating behavior among non-Saudi female nurses working in Central Saudi Arabia. METHODS A sample of 395 non-Saudi female nurses from 2 major hospitals in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia participated in this cross-sectional study. The nurses completed a questionnaire from November 2013 to January 2014 that included items ...