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LTC needs emotionally intelligent leaders
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Director (Cincinnati, Ohio)
|August 25, 2004
Abstract:
Without question, working in Long Term Care (LTC) is demanding and stressful. In addition to the intrinsic stressors staff must face daily in nursing homes, often, they must also struggle with executives and managers who add to the stress. It takes only one thoughtless supervisor to create a work environment that goes from bad to worse, in an instant.
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