Showing papers in "International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2008"

TL;DR: These findings can inform development of current best practice, although further research needs to be conducted into multidisciplinary teamworking at both the team and organisation level, to ensure that enhancement and maintenance of teamwork leads to an improved quality of healthcare provision.

TL;DR: Higher levels of adverse work-related factors were significantly associated with higher frequency of the distinguished types of violence and the necessity of interventions both over working conditions conducive to violence and violent behaviours themselves is suggested.

TL;DR: It is suggested that intervention aimed at reducing the risk for burnout may achieve better results if it includes enhancement of workers' hardy personality rather than just decreasing environmental stressors.

TL;DR: It was found that job satisfaction is a mediator between emotional intelligence and organisational commitment and "self-emotional appraisal" was found to be a suppressor.

TL;DR: Evidence from some trials supports the view that incorporating the theory of self-efficacy into the design of a physical activity intervention is beneficial, and research challenges that future studies need to address include the generalisability of exercise setting, the role of age as an effect modifier, and the need for more explicit reporting of how self-efficiency is operationalised in interventions.

TL;DR: There is a need for further research to explore health professionals' and parents' perspectives on children's participation in consultations and decision-making, as clearly they have reservations/concerns about children's active involvement in such matters.

TL;DR: Findings illustrate that there were several factors influencing the young nurses' intentions and by identifying the factors responsible it could be possible to retain young nurses in the field.

TL;DR: It is argued that alongside a disciplined understanding of the methodology, both researcher and reader need to share a commitment to 'thinking' which is willing to question, and open to trusting the resonance of understanding that 'comes' without expecting answers that are declared 'truth' for all time.

TL;DR: Nursing educators are correct in pursuing the teaching and learning of the reflective process in undergraduate nursing education, but nurse educators need to utilize various tools and strategies for facilitating the growth of undergraduate students into reflective practitioners.

TL;DR: EI is shown for nurses as a protective factor against stress and a facilitative factor for health (especially the Clarity and Repair dimensions), which could be especially important in training future professionals in these abilities.

TL;DR: It is suggested that students who enter with negative attitudes towards interprofessional learning may gain the least from IPE courses and that an unrewarding experience of such courses may further reinforce their negative attitudes.

TL;DR: It is found that some dimensions of emotional labour significantly relate to job satisfaction and job satisfaction positively affects organizational commitment and has an intervening effect on DA and organizational commitment.

TL;DR: Students suffered greater levels of psychological morbidity and burnout at the second time wave and this was largely explained by the personality trait of neuroticism, which is largely related to individual personality and coping traits.

TL;DR: An additional sub-scale to the CLES scale for measuring the quality of nurse teacher's co-operation with the crucial actors in the clinical practice of student nurses in Finland is developed.

TL;DR: Nurses' self-concept was found to have a stronger association with nurses' retention plans than job satisfaction, and nurse-friendly organizational policies, common health team learning opportunities, and autonomous practice models were examined.

TL;DR: Job resources could compensate for resources lost through meeting the requirements of emotional job demands, thereby reducing stress-reactions and increasing well-being and Providing health care workers with more, preferably matching, job resources could make emotionalJob demands less stressful, and even stimulating and challenging.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the extent to which work demands (i.e., work overload, irregular work schedules, long hours of work, and overtime work) were related to work-to-family conflict as well as life and job satisfaction of nurses in Turkey.

TL;DR: The impacts on mothers' well-being were not alleviated by access to professional supports or use of coping strategies, and health professionals need to adopt family-centred approaches that embrace the support needs of mothers.

TL;DR: The results suggest that students do not necessarily enter nurse training with negative predispositions towards work with older adults, but that such negative views develop during their training largely as a result of clinical placements and extra-curricula paid work.

TL;DR: The results show that RA fatigue is experienced as being different from "normal" fatigue, and will help professionals caring for RA patients to communicate about fatigue, to explore the nature of fatigue individually and to develop tailored interventions.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates that a research methods course can be delivered to postgraduate healthcare students at least as successfully by an entirely online method in which students participate in online discussion as by a blended method inwhich students accessing web-based teaching material attend face-to-face seminar discussions.

TL;DR: It is shown that social participation, which is an individual psychological resource, is important for health in all age groups, notwithstanding that the effect of social participation differs by age and sex.

TL;DR: The study confirms earlier findings on the relationships among turnover determinants, job satisfaction, and intent to stay, and suggests a more comprehensive selection of turnover factors must be taken into account when attempting to explain variations in actual turnover.

TL;DR: A new theory of nursing expertise and intuition is proposed, which emphasizes how perception and conscious problem solving are intimately related and opens new avenues of enquiry for research into nursing expertise.

TL;DR: The findings show a pronounced association between psychosocial factors and back or neck-pain-related disability, and the role of the type of health care institution within different countries in this problem is assessed.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that individual self-reliance and confirmation of others are helpful in the transition process of the transition towards autonomy in diabetes self-management among teenagers with type 1 diabetes.

TL;DR: This study has demonstrated that a 'motivational interviewing' intervention, incorporating behaviour change principles to promote physical activity, is effective in increasing selected aspects of a general quality of life questionnaire and a disease-specific quality ofLife questionnaire.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that there are gender differences in factors affecting self-care, even though at baseline men and women have similar knowledge levels, physical, psychological, and behavioral status.

TL;DR: Employees with greater competence for delivering public health showed higher self-evaluated job productivity, and the negative influences on job productivity possibly caused by conflict meaning on public health among PHNs in current public health policy.

TL;DR: Given that prevalence rates are very high prior to commencing work, nursing student populations should be a target group for low back pain preventative strategies.