A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada
BACKGROUND: Nurses play a significant role in healthcare systems. Their workplace experience can have an impact not only on nurses themselves, but also on patients and organizations, particularly in terms of quality of care and performance. Despite the importance of this experience, it remains an am...
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author | Gagné, Marie-Annick Dubois, Carl-Ardy Prud’Homme, Alexandre Borgès Da Silva, Roxane |
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description | BACKGROUND: Nurses play a significant role in healthcare systems. Their workplace experience can have an impact not only on nurses themselves, but also on patients and organizations, particularly in terms of quality of care and performance. Despite the importance of this experience, it remains an ambiguous concept with varying interpretations. Current studies do not fully capture its complexity, as its multiple dimensions are often considered in isolation. As such, developing a portrait of nurses’ workplace experience that integrates its multiple dimensions can provide decision-makers with better indications regarding what levers can be mobilized to generate positive results for nurses, patients, and organizations. AIM: To identify profiles of nurses’ workplace experience in Quebec, Canada. DESIGN: Cross sectional. METHODS: In April 2017, 891 nurses participated in this study by completing a self-administered questionnaire. Four dimensions of nurses’ workplace experience were measured: resources available to them in their workplace, personal resources, demands (psychological and physical) placed on them, and outcomes associated with their work. Descriptive and factorial analyses were performed. RESULTS: Three profiles of nurses’ workplace experience emerged from the factorial analyses: nurses in distress, nurses in moderately positive situations, and nurses in positive situations. CONCLUSION: The study identified profiles of nurses’ workplace experience that were differentiated based on nurses’ access to workplace resources, the demands of their work, and outcomes. Healthcare managers can use the results to improve the quality of nurses’ workplace experience by improving access to structural work resources and alleviating psychological demands. |
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spelling | pubmed-64171342019-03-25 A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada Gagné, Marie-Annick Dubois, Carl-Ardy Prud’Homme, Alexandre Borgès Da Silva, Roxane Hum Resour Health Research BACKGROUND: Nurses play a significant role in healthcare systems. Their workplace experience can have an impact not only on nurses themselves, but also on patients and organizations, particularly in terms of quality of care and performance. Despite the importance of this experience, it remains an ambiguous concept with varying interpretations. Current studies do not fully capture its complexity, as its multiple dimensions are often considered in isolation. As such, developing a portrait of nurses’ workplace experience that integrates its multiple dimensions can provide decision-makers with better indications regarding what levers can be mobilized to generate positive results for nurses, patients, and organizations. AIM: To identify profiles of nurses’ workplace experience in Quebec, Canada. DESIGN: Cross sectional. METHODS: In April 2017, 891 nurses participated in this study by completing a self-administered questionnaire. Four dimensions of nurses’ workplace experience were measured: resources available to them in their workplace, personal resources, demands (psychological and physical) placed on them, and outcomes associated with their work. Descriptive and factorial analyses were performed. RESULTS: Three profiles of nurses’ workplace experience emerged from the factorial analyses: nurses in distress, nurses in moderately positive situations, and nurses in positive situations. CONCLUSION: The study identified profiles of nurses’ workplace experience that were differentiated based on nurses’ access to workplace resources, the demands of their work, and outcomes. Healthcare managers can use the results to improve the quality of nurses’ workplace experience by improving access to structural work resources and alleviating psychological demands. BioMed Central 2019-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6417134/ /pubmed/30871631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0358-4 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Gagné, Marie-Annick Dubois, Carl-Ardy Prud’Homme, Alexandre Borgès Da Silva, Roxane A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title | A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title_full | A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title_fullStr | A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title_full_unstemmed | A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title_short | A cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in Quebec, Canada |
title_sort | cross-sectional study on workplace experience: a survey of nurses in quebec, canada |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6417134/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30871631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12960-019-0358-4 |
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