Rostering: placing the nurse in the picture.
A funded study to investigate best practice in nursing rosters in a busy metropolitan Melbourne children's hospital, identified the complexity of the shiftwork issues when the people who work them are placed centre stage. This paper explores a key finding of the study, which strongly endorses the need to take account of scientific knowledge on health and safety issues of shiftwork, but argues that the personal, socio-cultural and environmental perspective of the nurse needs to be given more attention by the various stakeholders involved with rostering.
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Centre for Research in Nursing, School of Nursing, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria.
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Wilks
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Geladas
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D019985:Benchmarking; D006302:Health Services Research; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards*