t he last thing most new graduates expected to worry about when they entered their nursing programs was finding employment when they graduated. although it is true that a serious nursing shortage is still anticipated within a decade (Buerhaus, auerbach, & staiger, 2009), new graduates today across the country are experiencing difficulty securing their first job. the economic downturn over the p...

Claims about the positive influence of emotional intelligence (EI) on work team performance are very numerous, both in commercial and scientific literature. However, despite the huge interest that media and business consultants put in EI and its fast-growing use in organizations, there is very little empirical evidence to support these claims. In this study, we investigated the relationships be...

AIMS This systematic review aimed to synthesize and analyse the studies that examined the relationship between nurse empowerment and job satisfaction in the nursing work environment. BACKGROUND Job dissatisfaction in the nursing work environment is the primary cause of nursing turnover. Job satisfaction has been linked to a high level of empowerment in nurses. EVALUATION We reviewed 596 art...

PURPOSE To construct a multidimensional self-report scale to measure nursing home (NH) medical staff organization (NHMSO) dimensions and then pilot the scale using a national survey of medical directors to provide data on its psychometric properties. DESIGN AND METHODS Instrument development process consisting of the proceedings from the Nursing Home Physician Workforce Conference and focus g...

Objective: to understand family members’ perceptions of nursing care for people with psychiatric symptoms. Methods: qualitative study, 13 members, in five clinical inpatient units linked the service a general hospital. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews. Results: challenges perceived by members turnover professionals work schedules and difficulty specialized management. The ...

AIM To investigate the views of senior nurse and human resource managers of strategies to retain hospital nurses in a metropolitan area. BACKGROUND Against a global shortage, retaining nurses is a management imperative for the quality of hospital services. METHOD Semi-structured interviews, thematically analysed. RESULTS Metropolitan areas have many health organisations in geographical pr...

Registered nurses are frequently confronted with ethical dilemmas in their nursing practice. As a consequence of their decisions regarding ethical challenges, nurses report experiencing moral distress. This experience is often manifested by such feelings as anger, guilt, and sadness, and has been identified as a contributing factor to burnout and turnover in nursing. The purpose of this explora...

Teachers in nursing schools, unlike those in nursing faculties in universit ies, have to play mult iple roles, which causes frequent burnout and a potential turnover problem. A measure of job satisfaction is thus needed to obtain clear and subjective perceptions of the work environment and to develop better working conditions. We transformed the Revised Attitude Scale Items to Measure Occupatio...

AIM This analysis compares the staffing implications of three measures of nurse staffing requirements: midnight census, turnover adjustment based on length of stay, and volume of admissions, discharges and transfers. BACKGROUND Midnight census is commonly used to determine registered nurse staffing. Unit-level workload increases with patient churn, the movement of patients in and out of the n...

BACKGROUND Amid a national nurse shortage, there is growing concern that high levels of nurse burnout could adversely affect patient outcomes. OBJECTIVES This study examines the effect of the nurse work environment on nurse burnout, and the effects of the nurse work environment and nurse burnout on patients' satisfaction with their nursing care. RESEARCH DESIGN/SUBJECTS: We conducted cross-se...