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- Title
Role Stress in Top-Level Nurse Executives.
- Authors
Scalzi, Cynthia C.
- Abstract
The rapid organizational changes in hospital systems during the 1980s are expected to continue into the twenty-first century. Even though such changes impact on all ranks of hospital personnel, top-level nursing executives are a particularly vulnerable group because they manage the largest segment of hospital employees and material resources. However, there is a paucity of research related to the job pressures, challenges, and difficulties that nursing executives encounter in their roles as leaders in complex organizational settings. The purposes of this study, therefore, were to examine the relationship among role conflict, ambiguity, and depression in top-level nursing executives and to describe the major factors of their perceived job-related stress.
- Subjects
EXECUTIVES; NURSE stress; ROLE conflict; AMBIGUITY; MENTAL depression; JOB stress; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1990, Vol 12, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599001200107