ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2017
Workplace Hazards Faced by Nursing Assistants in the United States: A Focused Literature Review.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Workplace interventions focusing on how to plan, organize and design the work environment in hospital settings: A systematic review.Work (Reading, Mass.) · 2024Pooled it
- Exploring Professionals' Perceptions of the Potential of Digital Twins in Homecare-A Focus Group Study in Sweden.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding occupational protection among nursing assistants: a cross-sectional survey with K-means clustering analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Optimizing Multidisciplinary Workforce Sustainability: The Interplay of Job Strain, Workplace Hazards, and Organizational Support on Work Engagement Among Registered Nurses and Practical Nurses and Nursing Assistants.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
- Attitudes of older adult care workers towards older adults and their influencing factors in Western China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A Looming Disaster: The Certified Nursing Assistant Staffing Shortage.The Gerontologist · 2025Article
- Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Mortality by Industry and Occupation - United States, 2020-2022.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 2025Article
- Experiences of Communication and Working During the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Nursing Home Staff: A Qualitative Interview Study.Nursing open · 2025Article
- Occupational Health Hazards and Control Measures in Government Hospitals: A Cross-Sectional Survey of Nurses' and Nurse Managers' Perspectives.Journal of nursing management · 2025Article
- Navigating Uncertainty with Compassion: Healthcare Assistants' Reflections on Balancing COVID-19 and Routine Care through Adversity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Evaluation of a Pilot Program to Prevent the Misuse of Prescribed Opioids Among Health Care Workers: Repeated Measures Survey Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Job satisfaction and wellbeing among migrant care workers in nursing homes: An integrative review.Nursing open · 2023Review
- Interventions on Well-being, Occupational Health, and Aging of Healthcare Workers: A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews.Safety and health at work · 2023Article
- Perceptions of nurses on occupational health hazards and safety practices in Ditsobotla public hospitals in North West province.Curationis · 2022Article
- Self-compassion training for certified nurse assistants in nursing homes.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2021Article
- Job and family demands and burnout among healthcare workers: The moderating role of workplace flexibility.SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Fidelity is not easy! Challenges and guidelines for assessing fidelity in complex interventions.Trials · 2021Article
- Exploring social-based discrimination among nursing home certified nursing assistants.Nursing inquiry · 2020Review
- What is behind high turnover: a questionnaire survey of hospital nursing care workers in Shanghai, China.BMC health services research · 2018Article
- Experiences of Iranian Nurses in Employing Nurse Assistants: A Descriptive Phenomenological Study.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
Nursing assistants (NAs) make up a large share of the healthcare provider workforce and their numbers are expected to grow. NAs are predominantly women who earn a low wage and report financial, work, and family demands. Working as a NA is hazardous; this manuscript specifically examines the biological/infectious, chemical, enviromechanical, physical and psychosocial hazards that appear in the literature to date. A focused search strategy was used to review literature about hazards that fell into each of the five aforementioned domains. While some hazards that were documented were clear, such as exposure to influenza because of close contact with patients (biological/infectious), or exposure to hazardous drugs (chemical), literature was limited. The majority of the literature we reviewed fell into the domain of psychosocial hazards and centered on stress from workplace organization issues (such as mandatory overtime, lack of managerial support, and feeling rushed). More research is needed to understand which hazards NAs identify as most concerning and tailored interventions are needed for risk mitigation.
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