Work environments and staff responses to work environments in institutional long-term care

Health Care Management Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 171-181

  Tourangeau, Ann Elizabeth ^a,b   Widger, Kimberley ^a   Cranley, Lisa A ^a   Bookey Bassett, Sue ^a   Pachis, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care quality; Job satisfaction; Leadership; Retention; Work environments

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BURNOUT; CANADA; EMPLOYMENT; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; JOB SATISFACTION; LONG TERM CARE; MOTIVATION; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BURNOUT, PROFESSIONAL; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITY ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONTARIO; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 67650948345     PISSN: 03616274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HMR.0b013e31819ea9c8     Document Type: Article

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