Power (Psychology)

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Absence of response: a study of nurses experience of stress in the workplace.

It has become clear that nursing is a high-risk occupation with regards to stress-related diseases. In this study, we were interested in nurses experiences of stress and the emotions arising from stress at work. Results showed that nurses experienced ...
Brita Olofsson, Claire Bengtsson, Eva Brink (J Nurs Manag, 200309)
absence-response-study-nurses-experience-stress-workplace.asp

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Nurse empowerment, job-related satisfaction, and organizational commitment.

Developing nursing care and the new technologies involved also require nurses to learn continuously and update their expertise. Attention has also been paid to the attractiveness of the profession-its ability to attract young people and retain nurses ...
Liisa Kuokkanen, Helena Leino-Kilpi, Jouko Katajisto (J Nurs Care Qual, 200307-09)
nurse-empowerment-job-related-satisfaction-organizational-commitment.asp

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Empowerment as treatment and the role of health professionals.

This article argues that the concept of empowerment has been co-opted by health professionals and redefined as an intervention to produce compliance. Patients are considered empowered by health professionals only if they make the correct choices as ...
Penny Powers (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200307-09)
empowerment-treatment-role-health-professionals.asp

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"The people know what they want": an empowerment process of sustainable, ecological community health.

Community-focused nurses routinely confront issues of environmental hazards in the context of the community. Limits to disciplinary knowledge about health, environment, and community constrain practice for many who are interested in ways to promote ...
Katherine N Bent (ANS Adv Nurs Sci, 200307-09)
people-know-want-empowerment-process-sustainable-ecological.asp

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The coming third health care revolution: personal empowerment.

The financing and organization of health care in the United States has been rapidly evolving in the last 30 years. Managed care and capitation have largely replaced fee-for-service as a way to pay providers. Cost-control initiatives were developed by ...
Duncan Neuhauser (Qual Manag Health Care, 200307-09)
coming-third-health-care-revolution-personal-empowerment.asp

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Workplace empowerment and magnet hospital characteristics: making the link.

OBJECTIVE: To test a theoretical model linking nurses perceptions of workplace empowerment, magnet hospital characteristics, and job satisfaction in 3 independent studies of nurses in different work settings. BACKGROUND: Strategies proposed in Kanters ...
Heather K Spence Laschinger, Joan Almost, Donnalene Tuer-Hodes (J Nurs Adm, 200307-08)
workplace-empowerment-magnet-hospital-characteristics-making-link.asp

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Power imbalance between nurses and patients: a potential inhibitor of partnership in care.

The Patients Charter identifies the need for nurses to respect patients rights to influence their care, and contemporary nursing practice advocates that nurses work in partnership with patients. Hence nurses are encouraged to share their power and ...
Saras Henderson (J Clin Nurs, 200307)
power-imbalance-nurses-patients-potential-inhibitor-partnership-care.asp

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Securing "good" nurse/physician relationships.

Responses to a study of 279 staff nurses from 14 Magnet hospitals enabled researchers to develop a five-category nurse/physician relationship ...
Marlene Kramer, Claudia Schmalenberg (Nurs Manage, 200307)
securing-good-nurse-physician-relationships.asp

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Childrens feeding programs in Atlantic Canada: some Foucauldian theoretical concepts in action.

Since 1989 the number of Canadian children depending on food banks has increased by more than 85%. To combat perceived hunger, breakfast and lunch programs have been initiated by localized volunteer efforts. This paper attempts to show the Foucauldian ...
Jutta B Dayle, Lynn McIntyre (Soc Sci Med, 200307)
children-s-feeding-programs-atlantic-canada-foucauldian-theoretical.asp

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What blocks health visitors from taking on a leadership role?

Current government documents in the United Kingdom call for all nurses to take on a greater leadership role. This paper critically considers some of the management factors that block one group of specialist nurses (health visitors) from fulfilling their ...
Erika Hyett (J Nurs Manag, 200307)
blocks-health-visitors-taking-leadership-role.asp