title: Staff nurse views of their productivity and nonproductivity.
abstract: Could better collaboration and cooperation to improve productivity occur between administrators and nurses if we understood nurse views of their productivity? Interviews of 30 staff nurses revealed that these nurses evaluated their productivity by the quantity and quality of their work. Working hard, finishing everything, and providing excellent care made them feel productive, while anything that interfered with this was a source of feeling nonproductive.
authors: Nursing Administration Graduate Program, School of Nursing, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
authors: D K
authors: DK
authors: McNeese-Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004650:Employee Performance Appraisal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006766:Hospitals, County; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D015141:Los Angeles; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015401:Nursing Administration Research; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*