Predicting nurse burnout from demands and resources in three acute care hospitals under different forms of ownership: A cross-sectional questionnaire survey
International Journal of Nursing StudiesPublished 27 September 2008
Niklas Hansen, Magnus Sverke, Katharina Näswall
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Profit orientation in health care seems to result in higher burnout levels for registered nurses compared to a publicly administered hospital, and demands were more predictive of burnout than resources.
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Profit orientation in health care seems to result in higher burnout levels for registered nurses compared to a publicly administered hospital. In general, demands were more predictive of burnout than resources, and there were only marginal differences in the pattern of predictors across hospitals.
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