Job satisfaction and emotional distress among nurses providing palliative care: Empirical evidence for an integrative occupational stress-model

International Journal of Stress Management

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Fillion, Lise ^a   Tremblay, Isabelle ^a   Truchon, Manon ^a   Côté, Denis ^a   Struthers, C Ward ^b   Dupuis, Réjeanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emotional distress; Job satisfaction; Nurses; Occupational stress; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947547204     PISSN: 10725245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1072-5245.14.1.1     Document Type: Article

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