Work Environment Correlates of Staff Stress in a Youth Detention Facility

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD DEMBO ◽  
MAX DERTKE
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Detention Facility ◽  
Substance Abuse Services ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Realistic View ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Status Offender ◽  
Southern City

We intensively interviewed 53 staff members of a state-operated regional children's detention center, located in a large, metropolitan, southern city. The center houses both delinquent and status offender youths, incarcerated on a variety of charges ranging from truancy to homicide. Staff stress was related to key features of their work environment. Concern about detainee acting out behavior, the perceived frequency of detainee “problem” behavior while in the facility, and the felt need for substance abuse services for detainees and better educational/recreational programs related positively to staff stress. Implications of these findings for developing a more realistic view of the nature and impact of the detention center experience for both detainees and staff are drawn.

Illuminating the decision-making strategies of anesthesia providers in challenging cases

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 653-657
Author(s):  
Joshua Biro ◽  
David M. Neyens ◽  
Candace Jaruzel ◽  
Catherine D. Tobin ◽  
Myrtede Alfred ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Practice Recommendations ◽  
Medication Delivery ◽  
Anesthesia Providers ◽  
Healthcare Work ◽  
Realistic View

Medication errors and error-related scenarios in anesthesia remain an important area of research. Interventions and best practice recommendations in anesthesia are often based in the work-as-imagined healthcare system, remaining under-used due to a range of unforeseen complexities in healthcare work-as- done. In order to design adaptable anesthesia medication delivery systems, a better understanding of clinical cognition within the context of anesthesia work is needed. Fourteen interviews probing anesthesia providers’ decision making were performed. The results revealed three overarching themes: (1) anesthesia providers find cases challenging when they have incomplete information, (2) decision-making begins with information seeking, and (3) attributes such as expertise, experience, and work environment influence anesthesia providers’ information seeking and synthesis of tasks. These themes and the context within this data help create a more realistic view of work-as-done and generate insights into what potential medication error reducing interventions should look to avoid and what they could help facilitate.

scholarly journals Efficiency and Teamwork in Emergency Departments: Perception of Staff on Design Interventions

2021 ◽  
pp. 193758672110231
Author(s):  
Sahar Ahmadpour ◽  
Sara Bayramzadeh ◽  
Parsa Aghaei
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Emergency Departments ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
The Body ◽  
Healthcare Outcomes ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Enhance Efficiency ◽  
Efficient Work

Objectives: The goal of this study is twofold: (1) identifying design strategies that enhance efficiency and support teamwork in emergency departments (EDs) and (2) identifying design features that contribute to the spread of COVID-19, based on staff perception. Background: Due to increasing ED visits annually, an efficient work environment has become one of the main concerns in designing EDs. According to the literature, an efficient work environment and teamwork improve healthcare outcomes and positively impact staff satisfaction. During the COVID-19 pandemic, EDs faced various changes such as workflow and space usage. Few studies explored staff perceptions about the influence of design features on efficiency, teamwork, and the COVID-19 spread. Method: An online survey with 14 open- and closed-ended questions was distributed among ED staff members to collect data about unit design features that impact efficiency, teamwork, and the COVID-19 spread. Results: The central nursing station was one of the preferred configurations that increased efficiency and teamwork in EDs. Decentralizing disposal rooms in small-size EDs and decentralizing the medication room in large-size EDs with more than 65 exam rooms can decrease staff walking steps. Flexibility to expand treatment spaces on demand, one-way track circulation path, and changing the air pressure in COVID-19 treatment areas were some of the staff suggestions for future EDs. Conclusion: The findings of this study contribute to the body of knowledge that EDs’ physical environments can impact efficiency and teamwork among staff and, consequently, healthcare outcomes. Compartmentalization of the ED layout can reduce the spread of COVID-19.

“We all Come Together to Learn About Music”: A Qualitative Analysis of a 5-Year Music Program in a Juvenile Detention Facility

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (13) ◽  
pp. 4046-4066 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maud Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Urban Youth ◽  
Rap Music ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Detention Facility ◽  
Music Program ◽  
Positive Feelings ◽  
Music Programming

The purpose of this long-term qualitative study was to uncover evidence that might support components of positive youth development (PYD) in a music composition program at an urban youth detention center. The constructs of PYD come from self-determination theory—competence, autonomy, and relatedness—and formed the theoretical lens from which the data were analyzed. Over a period of 5 years, more than 700 youth participated in the program and created primarily rap music compositions. Comments from their feedback, as well as interviews, were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Findings point to the emergence of two main categories as reasons for enjoying the program: competence and positive feelings. Creativity also emerged as linked to competence and autonomy as well as the “Good Lives Model” of detainee development. Further research on using culturally relevant and creative music programming as a tool in PYD is discussed.

Implementation of a COVID-19 Screening Testing Program in a Rural, Tribal Nation: Experience of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, January–February 2021

2022 ◽  
pp. 003335492110617
Author(s):  
Natsai Zhou ◽  
Nickolas Agathis ◽  
Yvonne Lees ◽  
Heidi Stevens ◽  
James Clark ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Testing Program ◽  
Laboratory Staff ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Antigen Tests ◽  
Real Time Identification ◽  
San Carlos

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected tribal populations, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Universal screening testing in a community using rapid antigen tests could allow for near–real-time identification of COVID-19 cases and result in reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission. Published experiences of such testing strategies in tribal communities are lacking. Accordingly, tribal partners, with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, implemented a serial testing program using the Abbott BinaxNOW rapid antigen test in 2 tribal casinos and 1 detention center on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation for a 4-week pilot period from January to February 2021. Staff members at each setting, and incarcerated adults at the detention center, were tested every 3 or 4 days with BinaxNOW. During the 4-week period, 3834 tests were performed among 716 participants at the sites. Lessons learned from implementing this program included demonstrating (1) the plausibility of screening testing programs in casino and prison settings, (2) the utility of training non–laboratory personnel in rapid testing protocols that allow task shifting and reduce the workload on public health employees and laboratory staff, (3) the importance of building and strengthening partnerships with representatives from the community and public and private sectors, and (4) the need to implement systems that ensure confidentiality of test results and promote compliance among participants. Our experience and the lessons learned demonstrate that a serial rapid antigen testing strategy may be useful in work settings during the COVID-19 pandemic as schools and businesses are open for service.

Constructing and Institutionalizing the Carceral Social Order

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lopez-Aguado
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Juvenile Detention ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Continuation High School ◽  
Detention Facility ◽  
Institutional Violence ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Home Community

This chapter describes how punitive facilities structure, socialize, and reinforce the carceral social order within the institution. I argue that in their efforts to prevent institutional violence by separating rival gangs, the prison, the juvenile detention facility, and the continuation high school instead construct a consistent social order that is based in gang rivalries—one in which everyone in the facility is compelled to participate. Within these facilities, staff members construct this social order by using race, home community, and peer networks to categorize entire institutional populations into gang-associated groups. Staff members then routinely maintain these categories as distinct groups by policing the spatial boundaries between them, as keeping rival groups separated is perceived as necessary for ensuring institutional security. The relationships and conflicts that are structured by these sorting and segregation practices ultimately socialize this carceral social order as a dominant, “common sense” logic for both managing and navigating punitive facilities.

scholarly journals Organizational Leaders’ and Staff Members’ Appraisals of Their Work Environment Within a Children’s Social Service System

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. Patterson Silver Wolf (Adelv unegv Waya) ◽  
Catherine Dulmus ◽  
Eugene Maguin ◽  
John Keesler ◽  
Byron Powell
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Service System ◽  
Organizational Leaders ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Social Service System

VIDEOCONFERENCE USING IN DURING OF INVESTIGATIVE ACTIONS INVOLVING PERSONS DETAINED IN PENAL INSTITUTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Сергей Владиславович Владимиров
Keyword(s):  
Video Conferencing ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Criminal Procedure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Correctional Institution ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
Detention Center ◽  
Detention Facility ◽  
Penal Institutions

Статья посвящена изучению норм уголовно-процессуального законодательства России, регламентирующих использование систем видеоконференц-связи. Рассмотрено развитие норм уголовно-процессуального кодекса Российской Федерации, регламентирующих использование систем видеоконференц-связи судами различных уровней. Проанализирован законопроект с предложениями по использованию систем видеоконференц-связи при производстве следственных и иных процессуальных действий. Предприняты попытки обоснования необходимости дальнейшего расширения сферы применения систем видеоконференц-связи в уголовном процессе, а именно их использования на досудебных стадиях. С криминалистической точки зрения обоснованы необходимость и удобство производства ряда следственных действий с применением систем видеоконференц-связи с участием осужденного, подозреваемого или обвиняемого, содержащегося в исправительном учреждении или следственном изоляторе, которые сводятся к облегчению работы как следователя, так и ряда сотрудников отделов и служб пенитенциарного учреждения: отдела охраны, безопасности, оперативного отдела и др.; снижению затрат на конвоирование подозреваемых, обвиняемых, осужденных к месту производства предварительного следствия и обратно; обеспечению безопасности лиц, участвующих в следственных действиях; отсутствию отвлечения работников исправительного учреждения или следственного изолятора от исполнения своих основных обязанностей; получению видеозаписи следственного действия как дополнительного средства фиксации. The article is devoted to the study of the norms of the criminal procedure legislation of Russia regulating the use of video conferencing systems. The development of the norms of the criminal procedure code of the Russian Federation regulating the use of video conferencing systems by courts of different levels is considered. The draft law with proposals on the use of videoconferencing systems in the production of investigative and other procedural actions was analyzed. Attempts are made to justify the need for further expansion of the scope of video conferencing systems in criminal proceedings, namely their use at the pre-trial stages. From forensic point of view, the necessity and convenience of production of some investigative actions using the system of video conferencing with the participation of the convicted person, the suspect or the accused in the correctional institution or detention facility reduced to facilitate the work of the investigator and a number of staff departments and services of the penitentiary institution: Department of safety, security, operational Department, etc.; lower costs for the escorting of suspects, accused persons, convicted to the place of manufacture of preliminary investigation and back; to ensure the safety of persons participating in investigative actions; absence of distraction of employees of a correctional institution or a pre-trial detention center from the performance of their main duties; obtaining a video recording of the investigative action as an additional means of fixation.

scholarly journals Technostress and remote Virtual work environment among University Staff Members: A cross-sectional study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hala Marawan ◽  
Shaimaa Soliman ◽  
Heba Khodary Allam ◽  
Shaimaa Abdel Raouf
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Virtual Work ◽  
Female Gender ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Virtual Work Environment

Abstract Background Technostress during the COVID-19 pandemic has become more prevalent as a result of the global preventive measures applied to limit the spread of infection. These measures included remote working from home in both public and private organizations.ObjectivesTo study Technostress and challenges of remote Virtual work environment among University Staff Members at Menoufia University, Egypt.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted over Menoufia university academic staff members in Egypt. The participants were chosen from both practical and theoretical colleges in Menoufia University using a multistage random sample. Tarfadar techno-stress questionnaire was used. Cortisol blood level was measured for all participants.Results: This study included 142 participants. The mean age of the group was 36.32± 6.41 years. 52.1 percent worked in practical colleges, and 60.6 percent were lecturers or higher. Their mean cortisol level was 15.61± 7.07mcg/dl. Participants who were females, reside in rural areas, held a lecturer or higher position, had poor work-environment Wifi, and lacked technical training had significantly higher levels of technostress subscales. Most of the technostress subscales were significantly correlated with age and blood cortisol levels. The predictors of work overload in multivariate regression were female gender and a work environment with poor WIFI. Female gender, theoretical colleges, being lecturer or higher and poor WIFI were the predictors for invasion. ConclusionAmong university staff members, Technostress was found to be evident. High levels of technostress were significantly influenced by age, higher professions, female gender, and a bad workplace environment.

scholarly journals Psycho-social aspect encountered by health professionals in work environment at primary health care centers in Dammam city

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Abrar Bani Bakhsh
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Healthcare Staff ◽  
Environmental Aspect ◽  
Staff Members

Background and objective: Psychosocial aspects may affect workers and the quality of care given. It has a negative impact in psychological state of the healthcare providers, such effects causes lack of healthcare quality and enforcing healthcare workers to leave work in primary centers. This study aims to explore the psychosocial aspect encountered by the health professionals as related to their work environment at primary healthcare centers in Dammam City.Methods: This study adopts a descriptive quantities research methodology cross-sectional and correlative design used. convenient subjects among 300 participants of health professionals.Results: A group of 300 health professionals were participated in this study. They included doctors, nurses, pharmacist, allied health personal, above half of them were females (54.3%), married (77%), diploma degree (50.7%). Nurses were the highest rate of health professionals (34%). In psychological aspect, the highest mean of employees were affected by their passion with client at work (Highest Mean: 3.78). The work for them was valuable and important (Highest Mean: 4.36). In social aspect, the researcher found that colleagues tend to hear each other and sharing problems concerning their work or life issues with each other more than with managers or supervisors (Highest Mean: 4.11). In relation to the work environmental aspect, the researcher found that the nature of their work situation needs them to complete their work quickly with extra speed (Highest Mean: 4.06). They work more than 8 hours per day (Highest Mean: 3.49), there is no variation in the work performed. The same task repeated daily (Highest Mean: 4.16). They were influenced by the state of their families and friends.  They work a lot of time (Highest Mean: 3.91).Conclusions: The participants of this study mainly female, nurses and married staff members, participants mostly complain work environment which put them in emotional disturbed situation. The Psychosocial aspects sometimes potentiate healthcare providers experiences. They tend to overcome bad situation in their work places. The researcher found that most of the participant seek social support and help which is importance aspects for them to perform their jobs accurately as required. It is obvious that stress experience, pressure and exhaustion in work environment for period of time, will lead to bad services provided by healthcare staff members. The result of the study led us to consider the practice of healthcare professionals in their work environment in Dammam City in KSA. In fact, the adoption process and procedures followed to reach the significant results which enhanced the role of the healthcare staff members.

Plagiarism, Ghostwriting, Boilerplate, and Open Content

2011 ◽  
pp. 604-613
Author(s):  
Wendy Warren Austin
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Workplace Environment ◽  
Business People ◽  
Academic Settings ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Collaborative Team ◽  
Open Content

This chapter explains to business people, administrators, and educator/trainers what plagiarism is and is not, and explores authorship ambiguities such as ghostwriting, templates, boilerplate language, collaborative/ team writing, and open content. It argues that two key features of plagiarism are the intent to deceive and lack of consent from the original author(s). Furthermore, whether the environment is an academic or work environment plays an important part in determining whether plagiarism has occurred, because academic settings impose stricter standards on borrowing. However, if both the original author and the borrowing author are aware of the origination of words and consent to their re-use, and the issue involves template or boilerplate language, or incorporates acknowledgement of influences, help, or collaborative contributions, it does not constitute plagiarism. Clarifying differences in standards and expectations of the academic and workplace environment will help business people better understand the ethical boundaries for practices of acknowledgement and attribution.

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