To the nurse managers who volunteered to participate in this study. To Miss Jacqueline Britton and Ms Brenda Hayman for their support with transcription and encoding in NVivo and Dr Joanne Cummings for editorial assistance. ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to explore and describe nurse managers' experiences with a team‑based approach to nursing care in hospital settings. Design A qualitative...

AIM AND OBJECTIVES to understand the purpose, impact and experience of nurse handover from patient and staff perspectives. BACKGROUND poor communication is increasingly recognised as a major factor in healthcare errors. Handover is a key risk point. Little consensus exists regarding the practice in nursing but the trend is towards bedside handover. Research on patient and staff experiences of...

AIM This study describes the views of nurse managers and staff members on human resource development (HRD) in health care. Our interest here is whether there are any differences between these two groups. BACKGROUND The need for HRD in order to cope with an ageing workforce and a diminishing number of younger nurses. METHODS A postal questionnaire was sent to a random sample of nursing staff...

10-bed cardiovascular thoracic surgical unit, a 12-bed cardiovascular thoracic intermediate unit, a 9-bed coronary care unit, and a 16-bed intensive care unit. Depending on the number of patients and staffing on the critical care units, critical care nurses floated outside their assigned unit to the emergency room and medical-surgical units. When nurses floated outside critical care areas, prob...

The purpose of this study was to test an expanded model of Rosabeth Moss Kanter's Structural Theory of Organizational Behaviour (Kanter 1977; Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian and Wilk 2001) by examining the relationship between nurses' empowerment and their perceptions of effort-reward imbalance (Siegrist 1996). A sample of 112 staff nurses employed in teaching hospitals in Ontario participated in ...

b Background: For decades, enhancing staff nurse decisional involvement in matters of nursing practice and patient care has been identified as a long-term strategy to improve the quality of the nursing work environment and the safety and quality of patient care. b Objective: To describe psychometric assessments of the Decisional Involvement Scale (DIS), a diagnostic and evaluative measure of nu...

‘Before this project I would not have known how a change to use of space and the environment could be so beneficial – relaxing and uplifting at the same time.’ Matron Lorna Mess says that the transformation of a ward at Goodmayes Hospital in Ilford, Essex, has reduced violence and aggression, and therefore staff burnout. ‘The end result is incredible,’ she says. Nurse consultant Geraldine Rodge...

Purpose: Nurse managers’ behaviors and job satisfaction are commonly addressed in the literature; however, registered nurse perceptions of nurse manager behaviors provide a unique perspective that may inform future strategies designed to enhance RN job satisfaction. The purpose of this study was to assess the perceptions of registered nurses that were explored through focus groups to learn the ...

983 Christopher Fountain, RN, OCN®, is a staff nurse; Lindi Goins, RN, OCN®, is the assistant head nurse; Molly Hartman, RN, OCN®, Nancy Phelps, RN, OCN®, and Debra Scoles, RN, OCN®, are staff nurses; and Victoria Hays, RN, MN, CNS, APRN-BC, is a clinical nurse specialist, all in the oncology unit of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon. Mention of specific products and opinions related...