The lasting impacts of work-attendance decisions of health care employees under uncertainty

The paid provision of care for dying persons and their families blends commodified emotion work and attachments to two often-conflicting role identities: the caring person and the professional. We explore how health care employees interpret personal grief related to patient death, drawing on interviews with 12 health care aides and 13 nurses. Data were analyzed collaboratively using an interpretively embedded thematic coding approach and constant comparison. Participant accounts of preventing, postponing, suppressing, and coping with grief revealed implicit meanings about the nature of grief and the appropriateness of grief display. Employees often struggled to find the time and space to deal with grief, and faced normative constraints on grief expression at work. Findings illustrate the complex ways health care employees negotiate and maintain both caring and professional identities in the context of cultural and material constraints. Implications of emotional labor for discourse and practice in health care settings are discussed.

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Identifying Occupational and Non-Occupational Factors Affecting the Retention of Health Care Employees in the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review Study

Journal of Ergonomics ◽

10.30699/jergon.9.1.15 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 15-32

Author(s):

Masoud Khosravipour ◽

Payam Khanlari ◽

Mohammad Reza Jafari ◽

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Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Health Care ◽

Occupational Factors ◽

Factors Affecting ◽

Health Care Employees ◽

Review Study

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Short-Term and Long-Term Effects of Off-Job Activities on Recovery and Sleep: A Two-Wave Panel Study among Health Care Employees

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph15092044 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (9) ◽

pp. 2044 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jan de Jonge ◽

Akihito Shimazu ◽

Maureen Dollard

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Panel Study ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Short Term ◽

Negatively Associated ◽

Health Care Employees ◽

Long Run ◽

Job Activities

This study examined whether particular recovery activities after work have a positive or negative effect on employee recovery from work (i.e., cognitive, emotional, and physical detachment) and sleep quality. We used a two-wave panel study of 230 health care employees which enabled looking at both short-term and long-term effects (i.e., two-year time interval). Gender, age, marital status, children at home, education level, management position, and working hours were used as control variables. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses showed that work-related off-job activities were negatively associated with cognitive and emotional detachment in both the short and long run, whereas low-effort off-job activities were positively related to cognitive detachment in the short run. Moreover, household/care off-job activities were positively related to sleep quality in the long run, whereas physical off-job activities were negatively associated with sleep quality in the long run. The long-term findings existed beyond the strong effects of baseline detachment and sleep quality. This study highlights the importance of off-job recovery activities for health care employees’ detachment from work and sleep quality. Practical implications and avenues for further research are discussed.

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