Job Characteristics in Nursing and Cognitive Failure at Work

Objectives: Stressors in nursing put high demands on cognitive control and, therefore, may increase the risk of cognitive failures that put patients at risk. Task-related stressors were expected to be positively associated with cognitive failure at work and job control was expected to be negatively...

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Main Authors: Achim Elfering, Simone Grebner, Anna Dudan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2011-06-01
Series:Safety and Health at Work
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2093791111220110