title: Defining quality of nursing work life.
abstract: As the largest single employee component of hospitals, nurses are critical to the functioning of the organization, and improving employee productivity continues to be a common theme in the health care literature. However, any increased productivity will be transitory if achieved at the expense of the quality of nurses' work life (QNWL), since improvement in the QNWL is prerequisite to improved productivity. The conceptual components of the concept of QNWL that differentiate QNWL from the concept job satisfaction are explored.
authors.affiliation: JWT Employment Communications, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Beth A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Brooks
authors.forename: Mary Ann
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Anderson
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003142:Communication; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006804:Ergonomics; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009013:Morale; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*; D016272:Occupational Health; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010563:Personnel Turnover; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D013597:Systems Analysis; D016526:Workload; D017132:Workplace / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000523:psychology*