JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 1 , Pages 8-13 , January 2007

Considering the Employee Point of View: Perceptions of Job Satisfaction and Stress Among Nursing Staff in Nursing Homes

  • Kate L. Lapane, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Community Health, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Kate L. Lapane, PhD, Brown Medical School, Box G-Hemisphere 105, Providence, Rhode Island 02912.
    • ,
  • Carmel M. Hughes, PhD

      Affiliations

    • School of Pharmacy, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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 This study was supported in part by a Commonwealth Fund and a grant from the Retirement Research Foundation. C.M.H. is supported by a National Primary Care Career Scientist Award from the Research and Development Office of Northern Ireland. K.L.L. and C.M.H. contributed to the study concept, design, analysis, and preparation of the manuscript. The sponsor funded the study, but had no input into the design, methods, subject recruitment, data collection, analysis and preparation of the paper.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00289-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.05.010

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