This paper utilizes the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) new worklife tables' information on workforce participation probabilities to estimate the effect of an injury on a worker's life expectancy, worklife expectancy and discounted expected income. After a medical opinion has been obtained concerning the effect of an injury on a worker's probabilities of living and remaining active, the BLS's ...

The literature reports that workload factors affect nurses' ability to fully engage in continuing professional development. Hence the work environment in acute care calls for innovative approaches to achieve continuous development of nursing practice and work satisfaction. This study employs a one group pre-test post-test design to test the effectiveness of nursing grand rounds on nursing workl...

AIMS We tested a modification of Leiter and Laschinger's Nursing Worklife Model by examining the impact of structural empowerment on professional work environment factors that lead to nursing job satisfaction. BACKGROUND The original model explains how five magnet hospital practice domains described by Lake (2002) interact to influence nurses' work lives by either contributing to or mitigatin...