Drivers of change: Learning from the lived experiences of nursing home social workers

Social Work in Health Care

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 247-264

  Lee, Ahyoung Anna ^a   Lee, Sharon Narae ^a   Armour, Marilyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care professionals; long term care; phenomenology; social services

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; DRIVER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; JOB SATISFACTION; LEARNING; NURSING HOME; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION; SOCIAL WORKER; STAFF; THEORETICAL MODEL; ADULT; BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; MANPOWER; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WORKLOAD;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING HOMES; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL WORKERS; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84961213586     PISSN: 00981389     EISSN: 1541034X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00981389.2015.1111967     Document Type: Article

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