Workplace Integrated Safety and Health Program Uptake in Nursing Homes: Associations with Ownership.

ABSTRACT: Workers in nursing homes are at high risk of occupational injury. Understanding whether-and which-nursing homes implement integrated policies to protect and promote worker health is crucial. We surveyed Directors of Nursing (DON) at nursing homes in three US states with the Workplace Integrated Safety and Health (WISH) assessment, a recently developed and validated instrument that assesses workplace policies, programs, and practices that affect worker safety, health, and wellbeing. We hypothesized that corporate and for-profit nursing homes would be less likely to report policies consistent with Total Worker Health (TWH) approaches. For each of the five validated WISH domains, we assessed the association between being in the lowest quartile of WISH score and ownership status using multivar

SUBMITTER: Collins JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8583467 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature