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.
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To gain knowledge of a nursing staff's perspectives and perceptions of hourly rounding in an acute care hospital setting. ⋯ Results from this study may give nursing leadership and educators' insight on how to lead and sustain a new initiative or evidence-based practice.
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This literature review offers a response to the current paediatric palliative care literature that will punctuate the need for a framework (i.e. the three world view) that can serve as an evaluative lens for nurse managers who are in the planning or evaluative stages of paediatric palliative care programmes. ⋯ Nursing management plays a crucial role in addressing the clinical, operational and financial needs and concerns that are grounded in paediatric palliative care literature.