LEARNED HELPLESSNESS: a phenomenon observed among the nursing staff of “City Hospital”
- 16 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
- Vol. 18 (6) , 252-256
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6163.1980.tb00100.x
Abstract
An interesting phenomenon could be observed among the nursing staff on a unit in a large city hospital where I was employed. One might describe it as apathy, laziness, or uncaring, or one could define the situation as "learned helplessness."Keywords
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