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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Nursing and the Work Environment

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. 
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.


2014. VI: Work environment. JCN Journal of Clinical Nursing, edited by Professor Graeme D. Smith.

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