Book Review: Winning Strategies for Nurse Managers

Nurse empowerment from a middle-management perspective: nurse managers' and assistant nurse managers' workplace empowerment views.

BACKGROUND Researchers have explored empowerment as an important condition for nursing staff but little current research focuses on empowerment from a middle-management perspective. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess the empowerment of a middle-management group made up of only nurse managers (NMs) and assistant nurse managers (ANMs) in an acute-care hospital setting. ...

Preparing nurse managers for informed action.

Nursing Adm inistration is one of the subjects taught to nurses study­ ing for post-registration courses, namely the D iplom a in Nursing A d­ m inistration and B Cur (I e t A) at M edunsa. Like o ther subjects in nursing, it is com posed of theoretical and prac­ tical aspects. For subjects in clinical nursing or patien t care and in nurs­ ing education, students have been able to apply theory ...

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Leadership style of Nurse Managers

Leadership style is phenomenon which affects the productivity and quality nursing care. There is a lack of research studies in this area in Sri Lanka. The aim of this study was to examine the nurses’ perception about their nurse managers’ leadership style. The study sample comprised 160 nurses using simple random sampling. The research instruments were Demographic Data Recording Form and the Pe...

Nurse Managers Stress and Coping

Objective: The purpose of this study was to gain insight into nurse managers’ stress experiences and coping strategies in order to better support them. Design: A qualitative exploratory descriptive research design was used in this study. Subject: Fifteen nurse managers participated in this study. Results: Three descriptive themes related to nurse managers’ occupational stress were identified: r...