OBJECTIVE To test a causal model of the impact of (a) nursing unit context on professional nursing practice; (b) professional practice on selected organizational (nurses' work satisfaction, nursing turnover, average length of patient stay) and patient outcomes (patient satisfaction, rate of reported medication errors, and falls); and (c) nursing unit context on these same organizational and pat...

AIM This qualitative study explored clinicians' and educators' perspectives on how knowledge and skills about family assessment and family nursing are translated from student learning to clinical nursing practice, together with barriers and supports for family-centred nursing practice. BACKGROUND Previous studies have explored educational preparation for family nursing and indicated that fami...

Service organizations often struggle with the challenge of providing services to their clients in a cost-effective manner. This problem is particularly acute among health services organizations such as nursing homes. Research has shown that the cost and quality of services is negatively affected by low job satisfaction and high turnover among service workers. Resolving this problem requires a b...

ADVANCES Fall/Winter 2003, VOL. 19, NO. 3/4 The Impact of Recreational Music-Making for Long-Term Care Workers The featured article in this issue, Recreational MusicMaking: A Cost-Effective Group Interdisciplinary Strategy for Reducing Burnout and Improving Mood States in Long-Term Care Workers—Insights and Potential Economic Impact, represents an outstanding research contribution. This paper p...

today, the work-family conflict is a challenge to nurses and nursing. in this regard, the ghaem hospital's 448 nurses making random sample of 100 individuals were studied. to analysis collected data, partial least squares (pls) and haland procedures were employed.the results were significant and positive relationship between the variables of a conflict between people intention to leave, and wor...

This study explored the relationships among perceived workplace incivility, stress, burnout, perceived turnover intentions, and perceived level of psychological empowerment among acute care nurses (medical-surgical and critical care) in community and tertiary hospitals through the lens of complexity science. An exploratory study was conducted, and findings demonstrate significant relationships ...

Aim To identify, simulate and evaluate the formal informal patient-level unit-level factors that nurse managers use to determine number of nurses for each shift. Background Nurse staffing schedules are commonly set based on metrics such as midnight census do not account seasonality or midday turnover, resulting in last-minute adjustments inappropriate levels. Methods Staffing at a paediatric in...

Israel has a low density of professional nurses. New evidence suggests less than optimal hospital work environments may undermine efficient and effective delivery of nursing care and contribute to job dissatisfaction and nurse turnover among nurses who are in short supply. Potential approaches to address these challenges are discussed.

CONTEXT Prior research has found that safety organizing behaviors of registered nurses (RNs) positively impact patient safety. However, little research exists on how engaging in safety organizing affects caregivers. OBJECTIVES While we know that organizational processes can have divergent effects on organizational and employee outcomes, little research exists on the effects of pursuing highly...

Changes in reimbursement make it imperative for nurse managers to develop tools and methods to assist them to stay within budget. Disparity between planned staffing and required staffing often requires supplemental staffing and overtime. In addition, many states are now mandating staffing committees to demonstrate effective staff planning. This retrospective quantitative study developed an empi...