Biomedical subjects

W D Corser

Publications and source records attributed to W D Corser.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1998

The changing nature of organizational commitment in the acute care environment. Implications for nursing leadership.

The downsizing of the acute care sector of healthcare is providing hospital nursing staff with fewer alternative employment options in the areas in which they currently work. This greater employment uncertainty is likely to affect the variables that organizational behaviorialists have found to both enhance or detract from the organizational commitment that staff members feel toward the organization. The author analyzes the latent effects of the progressive changes being sustained in acute care work markets that influenced nurses' perceived levels of organizational commitment in earlier times. The research conducted in this field by both nursing and other disciplines is reviewed, and implications are proposed.

Employment↗

PubMed1998

Occupational exposure of health care workers to bloodborne pathogens. A proposal for a systematic intervention approach.

1. Each year approximately 6,500 to 9,000 health care workers in the United States are exposed to infectious body fluids while on the job. The majority of the resultant clinical infections causing morbidity and mortality are attributable to bloodborne pathogens. 2. The relatively simple approach of educating workers so they comply with exposure control systems has continued to be employed by many infection control and employee health specialists, despite the temporary and/or negligible effects demonstrated from high risk health care employees. 3. The reduction of worksite transmission of bloodborne pathogens through the increased use of system wide and worksite engineering techniques has been advocated by experts, demanding increased consideration from health care planners and researchers.

Blood-Borne Pathogens↗

PubMed1995

First-line managers: what do nurses expect?

A study's results both confirm and contradict what nursing writers have indicated about the evolving first-line nurse manager role. Staff nurses were asked: What do you expect? Specific areas were examined--predominate workshift, full or part-time status, type of work unit and specific work activities.

Adult↗