The impact of social work environment, teamwork characteristics, burnout, and personal factors upon intent to leave among European nurses

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 939-950

  Estryn Béhar, Madeleine ^b   Van Der Heijden, Beatrice I J M ^c   Ogiñska, Halszka ^d   Camerino, Donatella ^e   Le Nézet, Olivier ^b   Conway, Paul Maurice ^e   Fry, Clementine ^b   Hasselhorn, Hans Martin ^a,f  

^a NEXT Study Group

^b HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^d JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WUPPERTAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Burnout; Cross cultural approach; Nursing; Premature departure; Teamwork

Indexed keywords

EID: 34748859836     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31806728d8     Document Type: Article

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