Job Satisfaction and Health Care

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This paper researches on the job satisfaction in the health care field. The results are reported in different sections following introductory material. In the first section there is a review of the literature relevant to the problem. The methodology for the conduct of the research is presented in the third section. The data analysis findings and a discussion of the findings are also reported in separate sections of the study.

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"Behavioral care workers in mental health care provider organizations frequently are required to care for patients who are acutely psychotic, aggressive, highly destructive, suicidal, or at risk of escape. Traditionally, "management strategies" for such patients have included the use of physical restraints, seclusion rooms, or constant one-to-one observation. These strategies have been criticized on grounds of ethics, economics, and efficacy (Montgomery & Johnson, 1996). The continued use of seclusion and restraint in psychiatric facilities "in the face of low confidence in such coercive interventions by health care professional may be a sign both of the persistence of traditional practices which have not been closely examined, as well as by the use of these traditional practices to shield the staff of such facilities against fear of mental illness, violence and loss of control" (Goren & Curtis, 1996, p. 7). Under such conditions, the stress placed on behavioral care workers becomes intense. Even when the needs of patients are less demanding than those described above, pressures and stress on behavioral care givers can reach damaging levels when accompanies by unsatisfactory organizational or working conditions (Wells, Astrachan, Tischler, & Unutzer, 1995)."

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