Investigating practice-level and individual factors of advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants and their relationship to resilience.

Background: Gaps in research persist related to practitioners' resilience, although much has been written about the need for strategies to strengthen personal resilience.

Purpose: The study's purpose was to examine practice-level (quality of physician relationship, physician presence, and autonomy) and individual factors and how they affect resilience.

Methodology: An online survey invited advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs) from four states to participate in a cross-sectional study.

Medicaid expansion and accessibility to healthcare: The Illinois experience.

Objective: The study examined the impact that the Medicaid expansion in Illinois had upon insurance rates, access to medical care, dental care, pharmaceuticals, and mental-health counseling between rural and urban counties.

Design And Sample: A serial cross-sectional design was used to assess the health perceptions of adults living in Illinois.

Measures: Survey data were collected in 2012 (n = 6,149) before the Medicaid expansion in Illinois and in 2015 (n = 3,532) after the expansion from rural (n = 4) and urban counties (n = 4).

Strategies of Advanced Practice Providers to Reduce Stress at Work.

High levels of stress and burnout, documented among healthcare professionals, result in high levels of job turnover. However, little is known about personal strategies employed by advanced practice providers (APPs) to mitigate stress. : 3,939 APPs were invited to complete an online, anonymous, cross-sectional survey to examine work stress and burnout among APPs using quantitative and qualitative analyses.

Advanced Practice Provider Perspectives on Organizational Strategies for Work Stress Reduction.

Unresolved work stress contributes to burnout, compassion fatigue, disengagement, and other work-contextualized factors. The impact of occupational stressors extends to the organization in a negative fashion as well. In 2017, advanced practice providers (APPs) from four health systems, including nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists, and physician assistants, participated in a quantitative online cross-sectional survey; 754 participants responded to a free-text question related to work stress and work-family balance.

Exploring burnout and job stressors among advanced practice providers.

Background: Minimal research exists on how engagement, burnout, work-family balance, and job stressors impact advanced practice nurses and physician assistants, collectively referred to advanced practice providers (APPs).

Purpose: To investigate the interrelationships among burnout, job stressors, work-family balance, and engagement with APPs.

Methods: An online questionnaire was distributed to APPs working in four healthcare systems.

Emotional intelligence and job performance: The mediating role of work-family balance.

In this study, we examine the dynamics between emotional intelligence, work-family balance, and job performance. A review of the literature to date has shown distinct relationships between emotional intelligence to job performance and work-family balance to job performance. We utilize a sample of 233 respondents to empirically test our set of hypotheses that contend work-family balance mediates the relationship between emotional intelligence and job performance.