Staff security and work pressure: Contrasting patterns of stability and change across five dialysis units

Nursing morale: predictive variables among a sample of Registered Nurses in Australia

“…The power of the support that can be provided by the group is considered important in dealing with day‐to‐day work stressors and pressures of the workplace Alleyne et al. (1996).…”

Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Disease

“…162 We have demonstrated that dialysis unit staff exhibit sustained characteristics over time in spite of the high turnover of individual employees, suggesting that a particular "culture" typifies each dialysis unit. 197 To understand the relationship between patients' feelings about the dialysis staff and outcomes, we surveyed HD patients regarding their level of satisfaction with their nurses, technicians, and nephrologists. Patients' increased satisfaction with staff and their perception that staff cared about them correlated with better dietary compliance.…”

Engagement of African American Families in Research on Chronic Illness: A Multisystem Recruitment Approach

“…A brief kinship questionnaire was used to survey all African American patients on each unit. Each unit had very few non-African American patients (see Alleyne, Reiss, Jeffries, Leonard, et al, 1996). Except for African American patients who were transient or seriously ill, the questionnaire was administered as an interview to all consenting African American hemodialysis patients to insure inclusion of patients with literacy or visual impairments.…”

“…These two combined factors suggest that inconsistency in the site coordinators' dual role responsibility across clinical sites was an important source of recruitment bias. Third, midway during the study, the dialysis unit moved from one location to another, providing additional stress and challenge to the morale of the healthcare team and the research staff (Alleyne et al, 1996).…”