Measuring organizational traits of hospitals: the Revised Nursing Work Index.

By Linda Aiken, P. Patrician. Nursing Research, 2000

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Research and Theory

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In General Health Professions

1. Douglas Sloane
2. Linda Aiken
3. S. Clarke
4. E. Lake
5. Hong Lu
6. Alison E. While
7. Carol A. Wong
8. G. Cummings

In Research and Theory

1. Douglas Sloane
2. S. Clarke
3. Linda Aiken
4. E. Lake
5. Hong Lu
6. Alison E. While
7. Carol A. Wong
8. G. Cummings

Citations in the corpus

• The Effects of Nurse Staffing and Nurse Education on Patient Deaths in Hospitals With Different Nurse Work Environments (2011, methodology): “The strategy of measuring organizational features of hospitals by aggregating nurse-specific reports is derived from the sociology of organizations research literature and has been widely used in research reports on nursing outcomes.(14,15,19,30,31) This method of measuring organizational features o”
• Measuring factors affecting implementation of health innovations: a systematic review of structural, organizational, provider, patient, and innovation level measures (2013, background): “Nursing Work Index [144] X O: hospital characteristics [144] None Healthcare”
• Nurse Burnout and Patient Satisfaction (2004, methodology): “The nurse work environment was measured using a composite measure developed from 3 subscales of the revised Nursing Work Index,(48) the NWI-R, which has been shown to have high reliability and validity.(49,50) These items asked nurses to indicate on a 4-point scale the extent to which they agree or ”
• Nurse turnover: a literature review. (2006, methodology): “Measurement of organizational attributes that characterize professional nursing practice has been advanced with the use of the Revised Nursing Work Index (NWI-R) (Aiken and Patrician, 2000), although further work is needed to determine predictive capability and relevance to organizations across diff”
• A 36-hospital time and motion study: how do medical-surgical nurses spend their time? (2008, background): “compelling evidence that poorly organized practice environments can negate the benefits of excellent staffing and positive patient outcomes.(20,21) A holistic approach is needed whereby people, process, and technology come together harmoniously in a physical space to produce the maximum medicalsurgi”
• The relationship between nursing leadership and patient outcomes: a systematic review update. (2007, methodology): “The most commonly used (n = 4 studies) measure was the manager ability and support subscale of Aiken and Patrician’s (2000) Nursing Work IndexRevised (NWI-R) (Boyle 2004, Gardner et al. 2007, Tourangeau et al. 2007, Flynn et al. 2010) while in four studies manager support subscales of Singer et al.’”
• Development of the practice environment scale of the Nursing Work Index. (2002, methodology): “This overlap was consistent with the ongoing refinements to the NWI item set, being done to measure a professional nursing practice environment (Aiken & Patrician, 2000; Sochalski et al., 1999).”
• Job satisfaction among hospital nurses revisited: a systematic review. (2012, background): “…19 acute care hospitals (84% response rate) Emotional Exhaustion Scale of Maslach and Jackson’s (1986) burnout inventory, Nursing Work Index-Revised (Aiken and Patrician, 2000; Lake, 2002) Odds on high burnout, job dissatisfaction and poorfair quality of care were twice as high in hospitals with…”