Stress, role and training in carers of the elderly
β Scribed by Lisa C. Benjamin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 297 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-6230
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β¦ Synopsis
The measurement of stressful event frequencies among different long-stay settings within a hospital for the elderly showed that staff with higher-ranking roles, regardless of their training, experienced certain stressful events more frequently than other staff members. Stressful event frequencies for a unit with only untrained care staff did not differ from frequencies for wards of trained nurses.
KEY woms-Psychological stress, geriatric nursing.
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