Average Hospital Length of Stay, Nurses' Work Demands, and Their Health and Job Outcomes

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 199-206

  Cho, Sung Hyun ^a   Park, Mihyun ^a   Jeon, Sang Hee ^b   Chang, Hyoung Eun ^a   Hong, Hyun Ja ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Hanyang University   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Health; Length of stay; Nurse; Outcome; Workload

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; JOB SATISFACTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NURSE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF; OUTCOME; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICS; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WORKLOAD;

HEALTH; LENGTH OF STAY; NURSE; OUTCOME; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TIME FACTORS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84899989884     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: 15475069     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnu.12066     Document Type: Article

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