title: [Hospital auxiliary staff, between polyvalence and invisibility].
abstract: Often underestimated, hospital auxiliary staff carry out on a daily basis a professional activity that may be difficult to define and/or recognize. What does their work consist in and what are the boundaries of the scope of their activity? Faced with a growing rate of absenteeism among these members of staff in a nursing home for elderly people attached to a hospital, an issue emerges: does the content of their professional activity have an impact on the causes and evolution of this phenomenon?
authors.affiliation: Pôle gérontologie, centre hospitalier intercommunal Castres Mazamet, 81100 Castres, France. Electronic address: p-veissier@chic-cm.fr.
authors.forename: Pascale
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Veissier
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D009042:Motivation; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010564:Personnel, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: absenteeism; absentéisme; agent de service hospitalier; ehpad hospitalier; hospital auxiliary staff; recognition; reconnaissance