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The Job Context Index: a guide for improving the ‘fit’ between nurses and their work environment
Author(s) -
Mansfield Phyllis Kernoff,
Yu Lucy C,
McCool William,
Vicary Judith R,
Packard John S
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1989.tb01582.x
Subject(s) - burnout , context (archaeology) , job satisfaction , index (typography) , work (physics) , nursing , scale (ratio) , psychology , matching (statistics) , applied psychology , medicine , social psychology , computer science , clinical psychology , mechanical engineering , paleontology , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics , world wide web , engineering , biology
Stress and burnout have reached crisis levels among hospital nurses The authors of this paper address this problem with the development of a scale to improve the ‘fit’ between a nurse and his/her work environment, there by potentially increasing satisfaction, and reducing stress and burnout Approximately 1000 hospital nurses, randomly selected from a large eastern state, described their work in each of 10 clinical areas, their reports enabled the construction of the Job Context Index, which rank orders the 10 settings on three dimensions, including general work pressure/uncertamty, routinization of tasks, and co‐worker interdependence Nurses, as well as educators and administrators, may find their index a useful tool for matching nurses' temperaments and workstyles with the charactenstics of the clinical areas in which they might be working