Caught in the undertow: a qualitative study exploring the relationship between the sustainable employability of healthcare workers and quality of care
Iris van de Voort, Ian Leistikow, Roland Bal, Jan-Willem Weenink · 2025
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Iris van de Voort and co-authors study in 2025 how hospital work wears down the people who give care. When staff cannot stay in their jobs in a healthy way, care quality suffers, and poor care in turn wears staff down. The team watched two teams in a Dutch hospital, in the emergency room and the operating room.
They found three habits that set the cycle in motion. Staff were stretched too thin as a routine. Workers felt far from decision makers. And raised concerns were often ignored. Over time these bred quiet feelings of discontent, distrust, and apathy, which the authors call an undertow. They urge leaders to treat such feelings as warning signs, not noise.
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| CREATOR | Iris van de Voort, Ian Leistikow, Roland Bal, Jan-Willem Weenink |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |