Journal of nursing management
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This is the first two-phase Australian study to explore the factors impacting upon compassion satisfaction, compassion fatigue, anxiety, depression and stress and to describe the strategies nurses use to build compassion satisfaction into their working lives. ⋯ for nursing management These findings support the need for management to develop appropriate interventions to build resilience in nurses.
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To explore compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction with the potential contributing factors of anxiety, depression and stress. ⋯ The employed nurse workforce would benefit from a psychosocial capacity building intervention that reduces a nurse's risk profile, thus enhancing retention.
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To explore the level of moral distress and potential associations between moral distress indices and (1) nurse-physician collaboration, (2) autonomy, (3) professional satisfaction, (4) intention to resign, and (5) workload among Italian intensive care unit nurses. ⋯ Enhancement of nurse-physician collaboration and nurses' participation in end-of-life decisions seems to be a managerial task that could lead to the alleviation of nurses' moral distress and their retention in the profession.
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To explore nurses' experiences with and perspectives on preventing medication administration errors. ⋯ Safe medication management requires a learning climate and professional practice environment that enables further development of professional nursing skills and knowledge.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate nurses' reporting of medication errors. ⋯ The reporting of medication errors is a problem in health care systems worldwide, including Iran. Considering the significant difference between the nurses' actual and reported medication errors, managers should monitor medication errors. Educational initiatives are needed to improve understanding of the importance of medication administration.