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Impact of participation in team meetings on the stress and coping of lower status nursing employees in long‐term care
Author(s) -
Torsney Kathleen
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.1344
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , certification , nursing , psychology , repeated measures design , clinical psychology , medicine , management , statistics , mathematics , economics
This pre‐test, post‐test control group pilot study sought to investigate the impact of including certified nursing assistants (CNAs) and licensed practical nurses (LPNs) in interdisciplinary team meetings on the variables of stress and coping. The data were analysed through analyses of variance and covariance. The results suggest that the effect of being included in a treatment team meeting on task‐centred coping is greater for the lower status worker (CNA) than for the worker who had more status (LPN). Qualitative data yielded information regarding the advantages and disadvantages of including lower status workers in treatment team meetings. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.