Background: Agency work in nursing is used as a form of labor to counter vacant staff positions in hospitals. Both hospital owners and nurses view this critically for different reasons.
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess what personal net income nurses in German intensive care units and intermediate care units consider "fair and sufficient" for their work (addressed in Part 1 of the survey) and what influence-aside from the salary-the working conditions have on the willingness to change to temporary work or back to a permanent position.
Background: Agency nursing is used as a form of labour to counter vacant staff positions in hospitals. Stakeholders and nurses might view this critically for different reasons.
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate what individual net income nurses in German intensive care units and intermediate care units consider "fair and acceptable" for their work.
Appl Psychol Health Well Being
February 2021
Background: Physical activity is a salient input to psychological health and well-being. Recent applied psychology research suggests that physical activity of a greater intensity is particularly important for recovery from work-related effort expenditure. However, whether and how moderate-to-vigorous levels of physical activity influence recovery outside of working populations remains unclear.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough physical activity has typically been conceptualized by organizational scholars as a postwork activity that spills over to enhance work-related experiences, little is known about how physical activity prior to the end of the workday spills over to affect nonwork criteria. Drawing from Hirschi, Shockley, and Zacher's (2019) action regulation model of work-life balance, we develop a process-oriented model of the implications of prior to end-of-workday physical activity for daily satisfaction with work-life balance. We examine our conceptual model in a 5-day daily diary study that incorporates objective measurements of physical activity (i.
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