Journal of nursing management
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This longitudinal study examines the influence of changes over time in work and organisational characteristics on job satisfaction, work engagement, emotional exhaustion, turnover intention and psychosomatic distress in emergency room nurses. ⋯ Nursing managers should be aware of the causes and consequences of occupational stress in emergency room nurses in order to enable preventive interventions.
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This study aimed to investigate the influence of professional nursing practice environment and psychological empowerment on nurses' work engagement. ⋯ Administrators should provide a professional nursing practice environment and empower nurses psychologically to increase nurse engagement.
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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. ⋯ Nurse managers should understand the implications to nurse workload of various methods of calculating registered nurse staff requirements.