Balancing involvement: Employees' experiences of merging hospitals in Sweden

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-18

  Engström, Agneta Kullén ^a,b   Rosengren, Kristina ^a   Hallberg, Lillemor R M ^a  

^a NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^b Hospital of Skaraborg   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change; Health care personnel; Involvement; Management; Mergers; Politicians; Qualitative method

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JOB SATISFACTION; MANPOWER; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SWEDEN;

HEALTH FACILITY MERGER; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS; JOB SATISFACTION; PERSONNEL LOYALTY; PERSONNEL, HOSPITAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036548476     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02141.x     Document Type: Article

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