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Occupational Precariousness of Nursing Staff in Catalonia’s Public and Private Nursing Homes

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Department of Nursing and Physiotherapy, University of Lleida, Lleida 25198, Spain
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Group for the Study of Society Health Education and Culture, GESEC, University of Lleida, Lleida 25198, Spain
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Health Care Research Group, GRECS, Biomedical Research Institute of Lleida, Lleida 25198, Spain
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Public Health Research Group, University of Alicante, Alicante 03690, Spain
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Faculty of Nursing, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada
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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16(24), 4921; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244921
Received: 12 November 2019 / Revised: 29 November 2019 / Accepted: 2 December 2019 / Published: 5 December 2019
Nursing staff who provide care in the nursing homes of Catalonia have more precarious work conditions, including more demanding schedules and work overload, than those in other areas of care. This situation entails two major problems: Detrimental health results for nurses who face psychosocial and physical risks and a negative impact on the care provided to patients, with a decrease in the quality of care. This study aimed to describe the precarious employment situation of nursing staff in nursing homes. We carried out a descriptive study based on the employment precariousness scale (EPRES), which was administered to a sample of 239 nurses and nursing assistants working in public and private nursing homes in Catalonia. The highest level of job insecurity occurred among nursing assistants and in privately managed nursing homes. The precariousness of the working conditions of nursing staff poses a risk both to the workers themselves and to the people they tend to. For this reason, there is a need for greater knowledge on the scale of the problem and the implementation of appropriate legislative measures to alleviate it. View Full-Text
Keywords: nurses; nursing homes; work conditions; employment conditions nurses; nursing homes; work conditions; employment conditions
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Fité-Serra, A.M.; Gea-Sánchez, M.; Alconada-Romero, Á.; Mateos, J.T.; Blanco-Blanco, J.; Barallat-Gimeno, E.; Roca-Llobet, J.; Muntaner, C. Occupational Precariousness of Nursing Staff in Catalonia’s Public and Private Nursing Homes. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2019, 16, 4921. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244921

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Fité-Serra AM, Gea-Sánchez M, Alconada-Romero Á, Mateos JT, Blanco-Blanco J, Barallat-Gimeno E, Roca-Llobet J, Muntaner C. Occupational Precariousness of Nursing Staff in Catalonia’s Public and Private Nursing Homes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2019; 16(24):4921. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244921

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Fité-Serra, Ana M., Montserrat Gea-Sánchez, Álvaro Alconada-Romero, José T. Mateos, Joan Blanco-Blanco, Eva Barallat-Gimeno, Judith Roca-Llobet, and Carles Muntaner. 2019. "Occupational Precariousness of Nursing Staff in Catalonia’s Public and Private Nursing Homes" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 24: 4921. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16244921

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