Nurses as Working Women
- 1 March 2001
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in AORN Journal
- Vol. 73 (3) , 675-682
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0001-2092(06)61961-3
Abstract
Women today make up nearly half of the nation's workforce. A number of these women have children at home, and women also often are responsible for providing care to older adult family members or friends. The different roles assigned to women in today's society are burdensome, particularly for nurses who deal with the stress of managed care, downsizing, the nursing shortage, caring for increasingly ill patients, long and irregular hours, and daily crises. There are ways that nurses can modify their work situation, however, to help them cope with the rigors of the workplace and the home.Keywords
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