Journal of nursing management
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To explore the relationships among perceived work environment, psychological empowerment and job engagement of clinical nurses in Harbin, China. ⋯ For nurse managers wishing to increase nurse engagement and to achieve effective management, both perceived work environment and psychological empowerment are factors that need to be well controlled in the process of nurse administration.
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To examine the relationship between nurse staffing and patient length of stay in an acute-care hospital over a 1-year period. ⋯ A rational response to the variations in patient care needs and intensity in the complex care environment is flexible nurse staffing. Increasing nursing hours per patient day to achieve shorter length of stays is not the only solution, well-functioning care processes are also essential.
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To re-evaluate the face and content validity of the Nursing Activity Score currently adopted in evaluating activities that best describe workloads in intensive care units and their weight in describing average nursing time consumption. ⋯ There is a need to revise the Nursing Activity Score tool, enabling its use in estimating nursing workloads in current Italian intensive care units practice. A taskforce of clinical nurses and nursing managers, capable of protecting the valuable original Nursing Activity Score project and to advance its further development is recommended.
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To describe how actions of nursing unit leaders influenced the long-term sustainability of a best practice guidelines (BPG) program on inpatient units. ⋯ As part of managing overall unit performance, unit leaders may influence practice improvement sustainability by aligning vision, strategies, and activities.
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To examine the influence of new graduate nurses' (NGNs) personal and situational factors on their satisfaction with the practice environment. ⋯ The findings of this study suggest there are modifiable situational factors that influence NGNs' satisfaction with the practice environment, and allocating NGNs to critical-care areas on their first rotation should be avoided.