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Work environment perceptions of staff nurses and aides in home health agencies. 1994

L A Dutcher, and C E Adams

Washington State University, Spokane.

Nurse executives are responsible for ensuring a therapeutic work environment in their organizations. Understanding how staff members perceive their environment is the first step in creating such an environment. In this study, perceptions of the work environment between staff nurses and home health aides in home health agencies were compared. The results suggest that nurse executives need to foster home health aides' job commitment and support for one another and increase opportunities for staff nurses to be innovative and autonomous in their practice.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007588	Job Satisfaction	Personal satisfaction relative to the work situation.	Work Satisfaction,Job Satisfactions,Satisfaction, Job,Satisfaction, Work,Satisfactions, Job,Satisfactions, Work,Work Satisfactions
D009718	Nurse Administrators	Nurses professionally qualified in administration.	Nurse Executives,Nurse Managers,Administrator, Nurse,Administrators, Nurse,Executive, Nurse,Executives, Nurse,Manager, Nurse,Managers, Nurse,Nurse Administrator,Nurse Executive,Nurse Manager
D009740	Nursing Staff	Personnel who provide nursing service to patients in an organized facility, institution, or agency.	Nursing Staffs,Staff, Nursing,Staffs, Nursing
D010465	Perception	The process by which the nature and meaning of sensory stimuli are recognized and interpreted.	Sensory Processing,Processing, Sensory
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D014861	Washington	State bounded by on the north by Canada, on the east by Idaho, on the south by Oregon, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
D017009	Professional Autonomy	The quality or state of being independent and self-directing, especially in making decisions, enabling professionals to exercise judgment as they see fit during the performance of their jobs.	Self Regulation, Professional,Autonomy, Professional,Professional Self Regulation,Regulation, Professional Self
D017132	Workplace	Place or physical location of work or employment.	Job Site,Work Location,Work Place,Work-Site,Worksite,Job Sites,Location, Work,Work Locations,Work Places,Work Site,Work-Sites,Workplaces,Worksites
D018574	Home Care Agencies	Public or private organizations that provide, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations, home health services in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)	Home Health Agencies,Home Health Care Agencies,Agencies, Home Care,Agencies, Home Health,Agency, Home Care,Agency, Home Health,Care Agencies, Home,Care Agency, Home,Home Care Agency,Home Health Agency
D018576	Home Health Aides	Persons who assist ill, elderly, or disabled persons in the home, carrying out personal care and housekeeping tasks. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms. 2d ed, p202)	Home Care Aides,Homemaker-Home Health Aides,Aide, Home Care,Aide, Home Health,Aide, Homemaker-Home Health,Aides, Home Care,Aides, Home Health,Aides, Homemaker-Home Health,Care Aide, Home,Care Aides, Home,Health Aide, Home,Health Aide, Homemaker-Home,Health Aides, Home,Health Aides, Homemaker-Home,Home Care Aide,Home Health Aide,Homemaker Home Health Aides,Homemaker-Home Health Aide