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Sustainable Working Life in Intensive Care: A Qualitative Study of Older Nurses
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4555-2699
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Work and organizational psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8213-1391
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology.
2022 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 10, article id 6130Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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To counteract the shortage of nurses in the workforce, healthcare organizations must encourage experienced nurses to extend their working lives. Intensive care (IC) has higher nurse-to-patient ratios than other settings, which includes a particular susceptibility to staff shortage. This qualitative study investigated how older IC nurses experienced their working life and their reflections on the late-career and retirement. Semi-structured interviews with 12 IC nurses in Sweden (aged 55–65 years) were analyzed using an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach. The results showed that nurses planned to continue working until the age of 65 and beyond. When reflecting on their late-career decisions, nurses considered nine areas covering individual, work, and organizational factors as being central to their ability and willingness to stay. Overall, the nurses had good health and were very satisfied and committed to their job and to the organization. They mentioned having both the job and personal resources required to cope with the physical and mental job demands, which were perceived as motivational challenges, rather than hinders. They also reflected on various human resource management practices that may promote aging-in-workplace. These findings may inform organizations aiming at providing adequate conditions for enabling healthy and sustainable working lives for IC nurses. 

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2022. Vol. 19, no 10, article id 6130
Keywords [en]
extended working lives, intensive care, interpretative phenomenological analysis, older nurses, qualitative, retirement decisions, SwAge model, health care, health worker, model, retirement, sustainability, working conditions, adult, aging, article, career, human, human experiment, middle aged, nurse, organization, qualitative research, resource management, semi structured interview, Sweden, workplace
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Applied Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-212264DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19106130ISI: 000803283400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85130128587OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-212264DiVA, id: diva2:1716456
Available from: 2022-12-06 Created: 2022-12-06 Last updated: 2023-01-04Bibliographically approved

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