Nursing is a stressful occupation with various physical and psychosocial
stressors inherent in its practice. While the physical stressors of nursing are generally
understood, less understood are the psychological and social stressors of the profession. With the
many changes in healthcare facilities and structures that are occurring today and, in turn,
affecting nurses, it is increasingly important to better understand the psychosocial stress
experiences of nurses. Grounded in the Job Demand-Control-Support Framework, the objectives
of this study were to: 1) examine factors associated with quality of work life (QWL) of
Registered Nurses working in four small urban hospital-based obstetric programs, 2) determine if
nursing occupational stress, QWL, and various factors (e.g., demographic, locations with and
without cross-training) are associated with nurses’ work ability, where work ability is the
worker’s capacity to perform their work, as was measured by the work ability index, and 3)
review and evaluate some workplace interventions targeting occupational stress management and
burnout for nurses.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OSUL.10219/2107 |
| Date | 09 October 2013 |
| Creators | Behdin, Nowrouzi |
| Publisher | Laurentian University of Sudbury |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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