Nurses' perceptions of the organizational attributes of their practice environment in acute care hospitals

Journal of Nursing Management

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 965-974

  Hinno, Saima ^a   Partanen, Pirjo ^a   VehvilÄinen Julkunen, Katri ^a   Aaviksoo, Ain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b PRAXIS Center for Policy Studies   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Hospital nursing; Organizational support; Teamwork; Work environment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESTONIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE; PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATION, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 70450196072     PISSN: 09660429     EISSN: 1365263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2834.2009.01008.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Aiken L.H. Patrician P.A. (2000) Measuring organizational traits of hospital: the revised nursing work index. Nursing Research 49 (3 146 153.
2. Aiken L.H, Clarke S.P. Sloane D. (2000) Hospital restructuring: does it adversely affect care and outcome? Journal of Nursing Administration 30 (10 457 465.
3. Aiken L., Clarke S.P., Sloane D.M. et al. (2001) Nurses' reports on hospital care in five countries. Health Affairs 20 (3 43 53.
4. Aiken L.H., Clarke S.P., Sloane D., Sochalski J. Silber J.H. (2002) Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction. Journal of the American Medical Association 288 (16 1987 1993.
5. Budge C., Carryer J. Wood S. (2003) Health correlates of autonomy, control and professional relationships in the nursing work environment. Journal of Advanced Nursing 42 (3 260 268.
6. Choi J., Bakken S., Larson E., Du Y. Stone P.W. (2004) Perceived nursing work environment of critical care nurses. Nursing Research 53 (6 370 378.
7. Clarke S.P. (2005) The policy implications of staffing-outcomes research. Journal of Nursing Administration 35 (1 17 19.
8. Cummings G.G., Hayduk L. Estabrooks C.A. (2006) Is the Nursing Work Index measuring up? Moving beyond estimating reliability to test validity Nursing Research 55 (2 82 93.
9. Currie V., Harvey G., West E., McKenna H. Keeney S. (2005) Relationship between quality of care, staffing levels, and skill mix and nurse autonomy: literature review. Journal of Advanced Nursing 51 (1 73 82.
10. Doran D., Sidani S., Keatings M. Doidge D. (2002) An empirical test of the Nursing Role Effectiveness Model. Journal of Advanced Nursing 38 (1 29 39.
11. Estabrook C.A., Tourangeau A.E., Humphery C.K., Hesketh K.L., Giovannetti P., Thomson D., Wong J., Acorn S., Clarke H. Shamian J. (2002) Measuring the hospital practice environment: a Canadian context. Research in Nursing & Health 25, 256 268.
12. Flynn L., Carryer J. Budge C. (2005) Organizational attributes valued by hospital, home care, and district nurses in the United States and New Zealand. Journal of Nursing Scholarship 37 (1 67 72.
13. Gardner J.K., Thomas-Hawkins C., Fogg I. Latham C.E. (2007) The relationships between nurses' perceptions of the hemodialysis unit work environment and nurse turnover, patient satisfaction, and hospitalization. Nephrology Nursing Journal 34 (3 271 281.
14. Jesse M., Habicht J., Aavisoo A., Koppel A., Irs A. Thomson S. (ed 2004) Health care system in transition: Estonia. Copenhagen: European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, WHO Regional Office for Europe.
15. Kaarna M., Põlluste K., Lepnurm R. Thetloff M. (2004) The progress of reforms: job satisfaction in a typical hospital in Estonia. International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16 (3 253 261.
16. Lake E. T. (2002) Development of the practice environment scale of the nursing work index. Research in Nursing & Health 25, 176 188.
17. Laschinger S.H.K., Almost J. Tuer-Hodes D. (2003) Workplace empowerment and magnet hospital characteristics: making the link. Journal of Nursing Administration 33 (7/8 410 422.
18. Mark B.A., Salyer J. Wan T.T.H. (2003) Professional nursing practice. Impact on organizational and patient outcome. Journal of Nursing Administration 33 (4 224 234.
19. McGillis Hall L., Doran D., Baker G.R. et al. (2003) Nurse staffing models as predictors of patient outcomes. Medical Care 41 (9 1096 1109.
20. Milisen K., Abraham I., Siebens K., Darras E. Dierckx de Casterle B. (2006) Work environment and workforce problems: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of hospital nurses in Belgium. International Journal of Nursing Studies 43 (6 745 754.
21. Needleman J., Buerhaus P., Mattke S., Stewart M. Zelevinsky K. (2002) Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitals. The New England Journal of Medicine 346 (22 1715 1722.
22. Piko B. (2006) Burnout, role conflict, job satisfaction and psychosocial health among Hungarian health care staff: a questionnaire survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies 43 (3 311 318.
23. Rafferty A.M., Ball J. Aiken L.H. (2001) Are teamwork and professional autonomy compatible, and do they result in improved hospital care? Quality in Health Care 10, 32 37.
24. Sveinsdottir H., Biering P. Ramel A. (2006) Occupational stress, job satisfaction, and working environment among Icelandic nurses: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. International Journal of Nursing Studies 43 (7 875 889.
25. Tranmer J. (2005) Autonomy and decision-making in nursing. In Quality work environments for nurse and patient safety (L. McGillis Hall, D. Doran, D. Tregunno, A. McCutcheon, L. O'Brien-Pallas, J. Tranmer, E. Rukholm, A. Patrick, P. White D. Thompson eds pp. 139 162, Jones and Bartlett Publisher Inc., Sudbury, MA.
26. Ulrich B.T., Buerhaus P.I., Donelan K., Norman L. Dittus R. (2005) How RNs view the work environment: results of a national survey of registered nurses. Journal of Nursing Administration 35 (9 389 396.
27. Welton J.M., Unruh L. Halloran E.J. (2006) Nurse staffing, nurse intensity, staff mix, and direct nursing care costs across Massachusetts hospitals. Journal of Nursing Administration 36, 416 425.
28. Wolf G.A. Greenhouse P.K. (2006) A road map for creating a magnet work environment. Journal of Nursing Administration 36 (10 458 462.