The Psychosocial Quality of Nursing Home Work

Trained observers used components of the functional job analysis technique to categorize 3,371 tasks performed by 214 nursing assistants in four nursing homes on five occasions over 12 months. The extent to which each task was oriented toward residents versus data or things was coded along with the "level of complexity" of each of these orientations. A psychosocial index was created by multiplying orientation by complexity. Three questions structured the analyses: (a) To what extent do nursing assistants' tasks involve interacting with residents, as opposed to focusing on data or manipulating things? (b) How complex are these tasks? (c) What are the implications of the task analysis data for assessing the quality of psychosocial care? Findings reveal that even among the direct care tasks (69% of total), the orientation was not predominantly toward the resident. Functional complexity of the tasks observed was consistently low. Those task types with the greatest psychosocial quality were those performed least frequently and vice versa. Implications of these results for restructuring nursing assistants' work are discussed.

Nursing Home Aides' Work and Family Connections

In order to maintain a productive workforce, organizations must acknowledge that many employees, particularly nurse aides, perform full-time care giving, both on and off the job. Competing demands between work and family can affect job performance, quality of care and bring on burnout.

Methodism and the Republic : uncorrected proof sheets sent out in advance to pastors intending to take the collection for Home Missios and Church extension on Sunday, November 24.

Statements herin contained ar not supposed to need revision.

The Economics of solar home heating : a study /

At head of title: 95th Congress, 1st session. Joint committee print.

Home-to-work trips and travel: report 4, 1977 - NPTS. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics Division, Washington, D.C.

The work of the Agricultural Economics Research Institute.

Mode of access: Internet.

The economics of women's work and wages

Caption title.

Readings from the Old Testament : selections from the English Bible for reading in home and school and for supplementary work in the class room in reading and English /

Mode of access: Internet.

The separation of home and work in Flint, Michigan.

Bibliographical footnotes.