This study aims to optimize the nurse manager's planning function based on identifying needs or solving problems in service unit. The method used is a case report by conducting interviews, observing using observation sheets, and distributing questionnaires. results show optimizing of nurses as managers nursing services. Preparation draft Guidelines SPO for home health care services solution. Im...

Objective: to understand the use of time by nurse managers in psychiatry and mental health units, as they carry out their daily tasks. Methods: cross-sectional study, carried 48 from public psychiatric units social sector. Data collection was made through an online questionnaire that is part Scale Perception Nurse Manager Work, including 43 items separated five functional domains managers. The ...

CRITICALCARENURSE Vol 26, No. 4, AUGUST 2006 49 Jean C. Toth is an associate professor of cardiovascular nursing at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. shown that this knowledge is beyond that required for licensure as a registered nurse and is essential before entry into critical care nursing practice. Staff nurses new to critical care typically acquire much of this knowledge...

AIM To determine if younger and older hospital employed nurses have differences in their self-reported health, health related productivity and quality of care. BACKGROUND An understanding of age cohort differences may assist nurse managers in understanding the health related productivity and potential quality of care concerns of their staff. METHOD A cross-sectional survey design was utilis...

Background: Most leadership problems involve more complexity than that, where the outcome isn’t predictable, and frequently require the ongoing management of tension between two or seemingly opposite but nevertheless interdependent values. The leaders should recognize polarities value that each pole brings their solutions. Aim: The present study aimed to assess effect educational training p...

Staffing needs affect the nursing department's budget, staff productivity, the quality of care provided to patients and even the retention of nurses. It is unclear how the role players (the nursing agency manager, the nurse manager and the agency nurse) perceive the staffing of agency nurses in intensive care units (ICUs). The purpose of this study was to explore and describe the factors that g...