Review
Nursing
Tatiana Penconek, Kaitlyn Tate, Andrea Bernardes, Sarah Lee, Simone P. M. Micaroni, Alexandre P. Balsanelli, Andre A. de Moura, Greta G. Cummings
Summary: This study systematically reviewed empirical literature on determinants of job satisfaction among nurse managers. The findings suggest that promoting autonomy, power to make decisions for change, social support, team cohesion, and strategies to reduce job stress are important drivers of job satisfaction for front-line managers.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NURSING STUDIES
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Kristen Koprowski, Diana Meyer, Teresa Stanfill, Laura J. Tivis
Summary: The results of the study indicate that self-initiated activities to improve resilience are beneficial for nurses, while leader-led initiatives do not have a positive impact. Furthermore, participation in leader-led activities did not increase the likelihood of clinical nurses participating in self-initiated activities.
APPLIED NURSING RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Cate Nagle, Olumuyiwa Omonaiye, Paul N. Bennett
Summary: This study explored the understanding and experience of Nurse and Midwifery Unit Managers (NMUMs) regarding their role, as well as the barriers and facilitators they identified in achieving their clinical goals, and their career plans. Findings revealed system challenges, lack of preparedness, limited support, and frustration in decision-making processes among NMUMs. Most NMUMs did not envision a career beyond their current role, highlighting a need for targeted interventions to support and develop their capabilities.
Article
Management
Nora E. Warshawsky, Emily Cramer, Elizabeth M. Grandfield, Ann E. Schlotzhauer
Summary: The study found that nurse manager experience has twice the effect on their competency compared to advanced education, and nurse manager competency and practice environments are predictive of missed nursing care and quality of care. Therefore, nurse manager experience and education are crucial for improving practice environments and nursing care quality.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Review
Management
Alberto Gonzalez-Garcia, Arrate Pinto-Carral, Silvia Perez-Gonzalez, Pilar Marques-Sanchez
Summary: The study describes and synthesizes nurse managers' competencies, highlighting 53 competencies, with communication and finance identified as the most important. Understanding these competencies is crucial for organizations to develop competent managers.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Review
Nursing
Hephzibah Sophie Edwin, Alison M. Trinkoff, Mary Etta Mills
Summary: This review examined theoretical models, measures, contributing factors, outcomes, and coping strategies related to moral distress in nurse leaders. The review identified contributing factors such as internal and organizational constraints, increased workload, and lack of support impacting physical and emotional well-being and intention to quit. The lack of intervention studies highlights the need for further research in this area.
Article
Sociology
Jesse M. Smith, Caitlin L. Halligan
Summary: This study explores how affirmatively secular individuals construct moral frameworks and make sense of everyday experiences through personal narratives and shared social spaces. The findings suggest that a sense of otherness, appeals to normative values, and reframing existential questions in secular terms play essential roles in the lives of a segment of the growing, increasingly diverse nonreligious community.
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Taava Leppanen, Tarja Kvist, Ruth McDermott-Levy, Paivi Kankkunen
Summary: The research indicates that perioperative nurses and nurse managers have some awareness of economic and ecological sustainability, but do not actively incorporate it into their work. The decision-making process emphasizes resource use, individuality, and ecological viewpoints. Social and cultural sustainability needs further development in perioperative work.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL NURSING
(2022)
Article
Management
Sinem Ozmen, Havva Arslan Yurumezoglu
Summary: This study aimed to understand the experiences of nurse managers during the pandemic, with a focus on the difficulties and opportunities they encountered. Data from 19 nurse managers working in pandemic management at a university hospital in Turkey were collected through semi-structured interviews. Content analysis revealed six themes related to the experiences of nurse managers, including initial reactions to the crisis, ineffective crisis management, excessive workload, moral burden in decision-making, support from colleagues and other multidisciplinary teams, and nurse manager empowerment. The nurse managers faced challenges in their roles during the pandemic but also saw it as an opportunity to identify and address deficiencies in hospital management at all levels, highlighting the importance of their leadership and decision-making roles.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Management
Sonia Udod, William Dean Care, Jan Marie Graham, Nadine Henriquez, Nora Ahmad
Summary: The study focuses on investigating how stressors affect nurse managers in rural workplaces, and how coping strategies can help cultivate resilience. The results show that coping strategies such as problem-solving, psychological reframing, serving others, and seeking support can enhance nurse manager resilience in complex and stressful practice environments. It is important for nurse leaders to provide support and encouragement for managers to develop awareness of their protective factors, and to focus on building resilience through formal education, social support, and meaningful recognition in order to establish a healthy work environment and maintain a stable nursing workforce.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Katja Pursio, Paivi Kankkunen, Tarja Kvist
Summary: This study describes nurse managers' perceptions of nurses' professional autonomy in hospitals and their role in promoting it. The findings reveal three themes: individual qualities behind independent actions, limited influencing opportunities in the organization, and physicians' central effect. The results suggest that nurse managers and organizational leadership should maximize nurses' expertise and encourage self-leadership.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
Article
Business, Finance
David S. Bedford, Markus Granlund, Kari Lukka
Summary: This study examines the influence of performance measurement systems and academic agency on the meaning of research quality in practice. The authors find that manager-academics have similar conceptual understandings of research quality, but there are differences in the actual meaning of research quality. These differences are traced back to the relationship between the local PMS and manager-academics' agency within the context of increasing performance pressures.
ACCOUNTING AUDITING & ACCOUNTABILITY JOURNAL
(2023)
Review
Management
Dalys Ullrich, Vicki Cope, Melanie Murray
Summary: Common components of nurse manager development programmes include curriculum, delivery method, support, and funding. Further evaluation and development of these components are needed for effective programme design.
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Alexandra Mudd, Rebecca Feo, Siri L. Voldbjerg, Britt Laugesen, Alison Kitson, Tiffany Conroy
Summary: This study aims to explore the role of ward-based nurse managers in supporting nurses to undertake high-quality fundamental care. The study reveals that nurse managers face difficulties in expressing how they support their staff to provide fundamental care. If fundamental care is not clearly understood and communicated within the nursing team, it may not be prioritized and could have negative consequences for patient care.
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING
(2023)
Article
Education, Scientific Disciplines
Gemma Hurley, Katherine Curtis, John A. Hammond
Summary: The research demonstrates that nurse educators in the UK assign meaning to compassion through their lived experiences, but they avoid the emotional aspect of compassion in their professional practice to protect students and their own vulnerability. There are conflicting views on understanding compassion, with emotional intelligence deemed necessary to grasp 'felt' moments or find a time for Being-with interpreted as compassion.
NURSE EDUCATION TODAY
(2022)
