Nursing Publications
Title
Application of the Nursing Worklife Model to the ICU Setting
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2008
Journal
Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
Volume
20
Issue
4
First Page
481
Last Page
487
Abstract
The Nursing Worklife Model explains how work-environment characteristics that affect nursing practice affect nurses’ lives in the workplace by contributing to or mitigating burnout. Using the characteristics that are known to be preferred by nurses and consistent with magnet hospital properties will help nurse managers reduce nursing turnover by decreasing burnout and by improving job satisfaction for their staff. This article describes how the five domains of the Nursing Worklife Model can be applied in the critical care setting. Within each of the five domains (nursing leadership, nurses’ involvement in hospital affairs, staffing and resource adequacy, nurse–physician collaboration, nursing model of care) are multiple strategies that can be implemented to improve the practice environment for nurses.
Notes
Published in: Critical Care Nursing Clinics of North America, Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 481-487 (December 2008). doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2008.08.004