BACKGROUND In 1998, the National Association of Clinical Nurse Specialist (NACNS) developed the first ever core competencies for clinical nurse specialist (CNS) practice. PURPOSE This article describes the method used to develop, validate, and revise CNS core practice competencies. METHODS The stepwise method of identifying core CNS competencies included content analysis of CNS position/job...

This paper examines the relationship between the inequality in workplace conditions and health-related outcomes in Japan. It analyzes the effect of changes in the work conditions and work arrangements on the subjective health, activity restriction, and depression symptoms, using the Japanese Life Course Panel Survey (JLPS). The 2007 JLPS consists of nationally representative sample of the youth...

There is an extensive literature on the scale of, and risk factors for, stress at work, and outcomes associated with negative job characteristics and perceived stress. More recently, however, there has been a growing awareness that unemployment is harmful to health, and that work is beneficial and may be an effective way to improve health and wellbeing. However, there has been little attempt to...

An important property of intelligent agents is semi-understanding of desired tasks. We have designed an agent module referred to as Professional Description Assistant that is able to identify the corresponding job definition from a job description in textual form. Thus it plays a significant role in the advanced services of our EMA employment agent. By means of some standard and modified learni...

Job satisfaction and organisational effectiveness among health information administration professionals were analysed in relation to selected background, work environment and organisational characteristics. The data comprised a 15% (n = 171) random sample of health information administration professionals in Kuwait, of whom 91.2% (n = 156) responded. It was found that remuneration compatible wi...

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Europe? Exploring the Gender Pay Gap across the Wages Distribution Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap across the wages distribution. We use quantile regress...

We analyze a 2002 survey of Southern California residents to evaluate the relative importance of factors that affect workers’ propensity to telecommute and telecommuting frequency. The survey collected a wealth of individual demographic information as well as job type, industry, and employer characteristics from about 5,000 residents. In agreement with previous studies, we find that the propens...

BACKGROUND Due to the aging of the population and subsequent higher pressure on public finances, there is a need for employees in many European countries to extend their working lives. One way in which this can be achieved is by employees refraining from retiring early. Factors predicting early retirement have been identified in quantitative research, but little is known on why and how these fa...

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The present study uses the Job Demands-Resources model (Bakker & Demerouti, 2007) to examine how job characteristics and burnout (exhaustion and cynicism) contribute to explaining variance in objective team performance. A central assumption in the model is that working characteristics evoke two psychologically different processes. In the first process, job demands lead to constant psychological...