The purpose of this study was to explore the nature of leadership styles used by nurse managers, and describe staff nurses' perceptions of leadership styles. Effective leadership among nurse managers has been associated with staff nurse job satisfaction and retention. Twenty staff nurses from two hospitals in Ghana responded to tape-recorded interview questions. Four themes emerged from inducti...

AIM To study nurse managers' perceptions and experiences of staff nurse structural empowerment and its impact on the nurse manager leadership role and style. BACKGROUND Nurse managers' leadership roles may be viewed as challenging given the complex needs of patients and staff nurses' involvement in both clinical and organizational decision-making processes in interdisciplinary care settings. ...

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...

background the association between quality of work life and participation in knowledge management is unknown. objectives this study aimed to discover the association between quality of work life of nurse managers and their participation in implementing knowledge management. materials and methods this was a correlational study. all nurse managers (71 people) from 11 hospitals affiliated with the...

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...

behaviors of nurse managers that staff nurses identify as supportive? If nurse managers are to be optimally effective, they must know and enact the behaviors that convey support to staff. Only staff nurses can identify these supportive behaviors and, through valid measurement, provide the necessary feedback to nurse managers, who in turn have the power to change and alter that aspect of the wor...

behaviors of nurse managers that staff nurses identify as supportive? If nurse managers are to be optimally effective, they must know and enact the behaviors that convey support to staff. Only staff nurses can identify these supportive behaviors and, through valid measurement, provide the necessary feedback to nurse managers, who in turn have the power to change and alter that aspect of the wor...

This descriptive study identified the profile and competencies of nurse managers of accredited hospitals from the their perspective and that of their hierarchical superiors. It was conducted in 14 hospitals certified by the National Organization of Accreditation and the Joint Commission International in São Paulo, SP, Brazil. Data were collected through two questionnaires that were applied to 2...