Media often reports problems within the healthcare sector. The issues point to that the working environment is unhealthy. One of the examples is that too high of a workload leads to stress, which in turn leads to increased numbers of sick leave and employees looking for other jobs. For an employer, there is a legal responsibility to provide a satisfactory working environment. The fact that workers are the most important resource in a workplace is not new, and it is becoming increasingly important for an employer to work with its personnel issues and try to meet their needs and wishes. The aim of this essay is to elucidate nurses' experiences of their psychosocial work environment, as well as the employer's legal obligations to maintain a good psychosocial work environment. To fulfil the purpose of the study, a legal sociological method has been used, where a legal dogmatic method has been used to determine the applicable law, and a qualitative method has been used to examine nurses' experiences through semi-structured interviews. The study's findings showed that the psychosocial work environment is a problem according to the nurses participating in the study, and that the employer's work to prevent ill-health can often be considered inadequate. The study's results also indicate that there are deficiencies in the law and specific legislative regulations aimed at the healthcare sector should be established.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-95810 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Persson, Anna |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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