A pilot study on the possibility of human-centred participative redesign of work organization at psychiatric wards.

WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Rationalization and an increasing shortage of nurses in psychiatric care require the improvement of working conditions. Work organization of hospital wards determines nurses' well-being on the job. In somatic care, observation-based assessments and participative improvements of work organization in the wards by involved nurses can reduce workload.

Participatory redesign of work organisation in hospital nursing: A study of the implementation process.

Aims: The main goal of the study was to apply and analyse a moderated participatory small-group procedure with registered nurses, which aims at the development and implementation of measures to improve work organisation in hospital wards and nursing units.

Background: Participation in job redesign is an essential prerequisite of the successful implementation of improvement measures in nursing.

Methods: The study was carried out in a public hospital of maximum care in Germany.

Work organization in hospital wards and nurses' emotional exhaustion: A multi-method study of observation-based assessment and nurses' self-reports.

Background: Ward organization is a major determinant for nurses' well-being on the job. The majority of previous research on this relationship is based on single source methods, which have been criticized as skewed estimations mainly due to subjectivity of the ratings and due to common source bias.

Objectives: To investigate the association of ward organization characteristics and nurses' exhaustion by combining observation-based assessments with nurses' self-reports.

High Job Demands and Low Job Control Increase Nurses' Professional Leaving Intentions: The Role of Care Setting and Profit Orientation.

We investigated how two types of care setting (home care and nursing home) and type of ownership (for-profit vs. public/non-profit) of geriatric care services interacted in influencing registered nurses' intention to give up their profession. In prior research, employment in for-profit-organizations, high job demands, and low job control were important antecedents of nurses' intent to leave.

The associations of supervisor support and work overload with burnout and depression: a cross-sectional study in two nursing settings.

Aims: To investigate the moderating effects of work overload and supervisor support on the emotional exhaustion-depressive state relationship.

Background: Burnout and depression are prevalent in human service professionals and have a detrimental impact on clients. Work overload and supervisor support are two key job demands and job resources, whose role and interplay for the development and maintenance of burnout and depression are not fully understood yet.

The role of cognitive resources for subjective work ability and health in nursing.

Cognitive resources can be considered to be key variables in the context of work ability and health, particularly in the aging workforce. However, research on this issue is sparse, lacking a comprehensive examination of specific cognitive functions. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the association of cognitive resources with subjective work ability and health in more detail.

Rest break organization in geriatric care and turnover: a multimethod cross-sectional study.

Background: Various determinants of nurses' work motivation and turnover behavior have been examined in previous studies. In this research, we extend this work by investigating the impact of care setting (nursing homes vs. home care services) and the important role of rest break organization.