Franziska Zúñiga, Dietmar Ausserhofer, Jan P H Hamers, Sandra Engberg, Michael Simon, René Schwendimann
OBJECTIVES: To describe care worker-reported quality of care and to examine its relationship with staffing variables, work environment, work stressors, and implicit rationing of nursing care. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: National, randomly selected sample of Swiss nursing homes, stratified according to language region and size. PARTICIPANTS: A total of 4311 care workers of all educational backgrounds (registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, nurse aides) from 402 units in 155 nursing homes completed a survey between May 2012 and April 2013...
October 1, 2015: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association