Advanced Illness Care Training for Nurse Care Managers

Information Needs of Nurse Care Managers

Unmet information needs of physicians and patients are common, but those of nurse care managers - defined as collaborative care planners for with chronic conditions - are less well understood. We taped and transcribed daily activities and conducted semi-structured interviews of 7 care managers, and analyzed questions elicited through this work through a variety of frameworks.

Meaning of the Systematization of Nursing Care for nurse managers

Objective: To understand the meaning that the nurse managers attributed to the nursing process, developed in their daily work. Methods: The phenomenological method was used, referencing the structure of the situated phenomenon. The subjects were thirteen nurses, managers of a university hospital. The analysis included transcription and readings of depositions aimed at the essence, by means of t...

Nurse managers’ visions of future challenges in health care organizations

Background: Because of the economic crisis and nursing shortage, the situation for hospitals will be demanding throughout the decade in the 2010s. This poses challenges for nursing management. This article focuses on Finnish health care, particularly on nurse managers. Aim: The aim of this study is to describe and analyse future challenges in hospitals in one hospital district in Finland from t...

Team nursing: experiences of nurse managers in acute care settings

To the nurse managers who volunteered to participate in this study. To Miss Jacqueline Britton and Ms Brenda Hayman for their support with transcription and encoding in NVivo and Dr Joanne Cummings for editorial assistance. ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to explore and describe nurse managers' experiences with a team‑based approach to nursing care in hospital settings. Design A qualitative...

Advance Illness Care Teams for Residents with Advanced Dementia