VI: Work environment


Professor Graeme D. Smith, Editor, Journal of Clinical Nursing
June 2014

Work environment plays an important role in the ability to provide quality nursing care. It can impact the safety of patient care and influence job satisfaction of health care staff. Poor working environment, in health care organizations, has been linked to absenteeism and attrition from the profession, both of which may affect care provision.

The collection of papers presented in this virtual issue highlight clinical nursing issues associated to the work environment. From issues of violence in the workplace to stress, attrition and job satisfaction these papers highlight the global importance of this topic. From each of these papers it is clear that a healthy working environment can be influential recruitment and retention of nurses, the reduction of stress, increase care satisfaction and improve patient outcomes.

Care satisfaction among older people receiving public care and service at home or in special accommodation
Staffan Karlsson, Anna-Karin Edberg, Ulf Jakobsson and Ingalill and R Hallberg

Job conditions, job satisfaction, somatic complaints and burnout among East African nurses
Margot van der Doef, Femke Bannink Mbazzi and Chris Verhoeven

Emotional intelligence as a moderator in the stress–burnout relationship: a questionnaire study on nurses
Gina Görgens-Ekermans and Tamari Brand

Administrative stressors and nursing job outcomes in Australian public and non-profit health care organisations
Stephen TT Teo, Melissa Yeung and Esther Chang

Oppression and exposure as differentiating predictors of types of workplace violence for nurses
John Rodwell and Defne Demir

Patient satisfaction in home health care
Said Abusalem, John A Myers and Yousef Aljeesh