Perceptions of Communication, Teamwork, and Stress in Long Term Care
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Ronald Fuqua
Meri Stegall
Michiel S. Stegall
Thomas McIlwain
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The goals of this study were to identify how long-term care nursing employees perceive communication, teamwork and stress in their work environment and examine the relationships among these concepts. Data from long-term care nursing employees (RNs and LPNs) on their perceptions of receiving information and being asked for their input, giving help to others and receiving help in doing their jobs, as well as their perception of the level of stress in their jobs were
collected through an online survey. Analysis provides an assessment of associations between nursing employees’ demographic characteristics and their beliefs. Significant results from the Kendall’s tau-b correlation analysis of the study variables include a negative relationship between
increased stress and being told what they needed to know and being asked for their input (the communications factor) when higher values of stress were removed from the sample.