Nurse absenteeism, stress and workplace injury: what are the contributing factors and what can/should be done about it?

Abstract

States Canadian governments have, after a decade of health care downsizing, started to focus on issues of health human resources. Posits that nurses in particular experience higher rates of absenteeism and injury than other types of Canadian workers. Advocates that this study’s findings offers numerous ideas to managers of the system, unions, nurses, government and other parties on how to manage the system better for all involved and the improvement of the health care system.

Citation

Shamian, J., O’Brien‐Pallas, L., Thomson, D., Alksnis, C. and Steven Kerr, M. (2003), "Nurse absenteeism, stress and workplace injury: what are the contributing factors and what can/should be done about it?", International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 23 No. 8/9, pp. 81-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790651

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