Journal of Nursing Management

AIM: This descriptive study was conducted to determine the awareness of nurses working in intensive care units about the daily patient checklist. BACKGROUND: Checklists are used in the daily follow-up and evaluation of patients admitted to the intensive care unit. METHOD: The research was carried out with 180 nurses through the social media account of the Turkish Intensive Care Specialists Association Nurse Commission between July 2021 and March 2022...

AIM: This study aimed to identify determinants of physical, mental and emotional nursing workloads. BACKGROUND: Workload has a physical, mental and emotional dimension. It influences employees' well-being and quality of care. Nevertheless, studies of specific predictors for each dimension of nurses' workload are scarce. METHODS: We used a cross-sectional prospective design based on the Job Demand-Resources theory. We asked nurses to describe workload perceived at the end of every shift over three consecutive weeks...

AIM: This study aims to explore the proposed concept of "nurse-sensitive environmental indicators" among nursing and non-nursing leaders of environmental stewardship who work with nurses. BACKGROUND: Aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, nurses are obligated to "practice in a manner that advances environmental safety and health." Little is known about environmental impacts in acute-care nursing. METHODS: Nursing and non-nursing leaders of environmental stewardship across the United States (N = 9) were interviewed to explore the concept of acute-care nurse-sensitive environmental indicators...

AIMS: To investigate the relationship between organizational support and nurse managers' burnout and the serial multiple mediating effects of leadership and resilience. BACKGROUND: Nurse managers are at a high risk of burnout, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, no research has been done to examine the associations between nurse managers' organizational support, leadership, resilience and burnout. METHODS: This cross-sectional study recruited 458 nurse managers from 13 tertiary public hospitals in Jiangsu, China...

AIM: The main objective is to determine if the infrastructure of critical care units influences the perception of professionals using this handover method. BACKGROUND: Nursing bedside handover is considered a safe information transfer method that can help reduce communication errors; however, it has some disadvantages expressed by health professionals and patients, related to confidentiality, stress and less rest. METHODS: Qualitative descriptive study...

AIMS: The aims of this work are to (1) investigate the work environment, resilience, burnout, and turnover intention and (2) examine how work environment and personal resilience impact burnout and turnover intention among nurse leaders in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic introduced tremendous stressors to nurse leaders, for example, managing the complex staffing situation while balancing patients' and family's needs. METHODS: During May to September 2021, an electronic survey was sent out to nurse leaders in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, and surrounding areas...

AIM: To explore the cognition and practice on transitional care during the transfer from intensive care unit to a general ward among healthcare professionals in China. BACKGROUND: Due to the significant differences in the medical and humanistic environment at home and abroad, the safety of patients during the transmission from intensive care unit to the general ward is often ignored when their conditions become stable. There are few qualitative studies on the cognition and practice on transitional care during the transfer from intensive care unit to the ward among healthcare professionals in China...

AIMS: To investigate the relationships between transformational leadership, psychological empowerment, and nurses' innovative behavior. BACKGROUND: The innovative behavior of nurses is important to adapt to the changing medical environment. However, there is currently a limited understanding of the relationship between nurses' innovative behavior and transformational leadership and psychological empowerment during the pandemic. METHODS: Convenience sampling was used to conduct an investigation involving 1317 nurses from ten hospitals in China from January 2022 to April 2022...

AIM: The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between organizational ethical climate and components of nursing error reporting in selected hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2020. BACKGROUND: Error reporting is considered as a strategic indicator for error prevention. METHOD: This is a cross-sectional and correlational study that was conducted on 336 samples who had been selected by stratified random sampling method...

AIMS: To determine the levels of patient safety value, safety attitude and safety competency and to explore the associations among these variables in emergency nurses in China. BACKGROUND: Studies have focused on the individual characteristics of nurses as influencing factors of patient safety but not on the factors that may affect patient safety competency in the context of Chinese culture, such as safety value and safety attitude. METHOD: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among emergency nurses in 22 hospitals...

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AIM: The purpose is to identify and synthesize the challenges of first-line nurse managers in home care concerning their managerial and leadership role, as described in current qualitative research literature. BACKGROUND: Increased responsibilities and shifting tasks in home care lead to challenges for first-line nurse managers. These challenges must be identified and evaluated to ensure quality care provision. EVALUATION: A scoping review mapped current qualitative research on first-line nurse managers in home care, focusing on their managerial and leadership role...

BACKGROUND: The organizational climate in paediatric intensive care units is specific to the conditions of the patient, and there may be a relationship between the ethical climate perception and moral distress levels of the nurses working in this unit. AIM: The research aim was to examine the relationship between the moral distress levels and their perceptions of hospital ethical climate of paediatric intensive care unit nurses. METHODS: This research was aimed a descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational type with 239 paediatric intensive care unit nurses of public, university and training and research hospitals in Turkey...

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AIM: This study aimed to investigate the Integrating Sustainability Development Education Program in Nursing to Challenge Practice Among Nursing Interns in Health Care. BACKGROUND: The combination of sustainable development and climate change in health care delivery benefits from the apparent environmental changes. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: The quasi-experimental, cross-sectional, comparative study included 160 nursing interns who completed the intervention...

AIM: To investigate burnout and resilience among hospital based nurse managers post COVID-19 in order to suggest appropriate person-centred leadership support. BACKGROUND: Nurse leaders are central to establishing safe and caring environments for patients and staff. Therefore, their own wellbeing is crucial, particular in times of crisis where they must provide support and guidance. METHODS: Cross sectional questionnaire including ward managers...

AIM: This research aims to understand the place and role of nurses holding a PhD or PhD students (Nurse Doctor (ND)/Nurse Doctoral Students (NDS)) in healthcare organizations in France. CONTEXT: Worlwide, many nurses are undertaking doctoral studies. France is no exception. However, in France, there is no doctorate dedicated to nursing. The question of ND/NDS' integration into health organizations is thus raised in a specific manner. METHODS: We used a two-stage mixed methodology...

AIM: To validate the Nijmegen Gender Awareness in Medicine Scale, which assesses gender sensitivity and gender-role ideology towards patients in the Spanish language for use among physicians and nurses. BACKGROUND: Women are more likely to suffer pain, delays, and health consequences related to low therapeutic effort. Health professionals' gender awareness may minimize such bias; however, the only instrument to assess such awareness is limited to physicians and lacks a Spanish version...

AIM: The article aims to outline a contrast between three priorities for nursing management proposed a decade ago and key features of the following ten years of developments on Artificial Intelligence for healthcare and nursing management. This analysis intends to contribute to update the international debate on bridging the essence of healthcare and nursing management priorities and the focus of Artificial Intelligence developers. BACKGROUND: Artificial Intelligence research promises innovative approaches to supporting nurses' clinical decision-making and to conduct tasks not related to patient interaction, including administrative activities and patient records...

AIMS: The goal of this study was to explore caregivers' experiences, perspectives, emotions, knowledge and needs in caring for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic. These included, but were not limited to, experiences in hospital care, home care and nursing home care. BACKGROUND: Because of the high mortality rate associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, senior care is critical. During the COVID-19 pandemic, caregivers caring for older people have had unique experiences potentially affecting the quality of care provided...