Rostering: placing the nurse in the picture
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Using Visual and Narrative Methods to Achieve Fair Process in Clinical Care
Published on: February 16, 2011
1Centre for Research in Nursing, School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.
Abstract:
A funded study to investigate best practice in nursing rosters in a busy metropolitan Melbourne children's hospital, identified the complexity of the shiftwork issues when the people who work them are placed centre stage. This paper explores a key finding of the study, which strongly endorses the need to take account of scientific knowledge on health and safety issues of shiftwork, but argues that the personal, socio-cultural and environmental perspective of the nurse needs to be given more attention by the various stakeholders involved with rostering.
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