Understanding work ability: experiences of female assistant nurses in elderly care.
Few studies to date have investigated retained work ability. The aim of this explorative study was to describe female assistant nurses' experiences of high work attendance over the years The setting is a municipality in mid-Sweden that employs 466 female assistant nurses permanently within municipal...
| Publicado en: | Work Vol. 34; no. 3; pp. 373 - 384 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Sage Publications Inc.
2009
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