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The prevalence and effects of occupational stress, burnout and low job satisfaction are poorly understood in the health workforce. This article gives a brief overview of occupational stress, burnout and job satisfaction among health professionals, and examines whether engagement in research can contribute to job satisfaction and efficacy, and thereby to reducing stress and burnout.
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Purpose of study: The culture of an organization shapes the attitudes and behaviors of employees and plays a key role in driving organizational outcomes. Yet, it is enormously challenging to manage or change. In this paper we review the recent literature on culture change interventions in health care organizations to identify the common themes underpinning these interventions.
Practical Implications: There is no “one size fits all” recipe for culture change. Rather, attention to context with key features including diagnosis and evaluation of culture, a combination of support from leaders and others in the organization, and strategies to embed the culture change are important for the change process to happen.
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Recent financial pressures on and care quality scandals in the UK NHS impact on the work of executive nurse directors. The short length of tenure and the high number of vacancies for these posts point to the exacting demands of the role and raise questions about the support mechanisms available for the most senior nurses in NHS organizations. The aim of this study was to explore the role stressors experienced by executive nurse directors and strategies employed to maintain resilience. Concludes that recent fiscal austerity and scandals relating to quality of care have increased pressure on executive nurse directors. Increasing size of organizations, limited resources devoted to quality combined with poorly defined limits of responsibility are all major stressors and executive nurse directors, both in the United Kingdom and internationally, need clear strategies to maintain resilience. Repetitive demands for data by oversight organizations may detract from more important quality assurance strategies.
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The purpose of this article is to describe how executive coaching was used with a senior nurse leader who then implemented sustained organizational change, re-engaged frontline staff, and affected culture in a positive manner.
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Time scarcity is a common occurrence in the nurse work environment that stimulates a decision-making process, known as clinical prioritization or implicit rationing. In implicit rationing, nurses must decide what care they will complete and what they will leave unfinished. Five mechanisms that influence this process are supported in the literature. The effects of these influential mechanisms leave patients vulnerable to unmet educational, psychological, care coordination and discharge planning needs. Potential areas for intervention by nurse leaders include redesigning care delivery models to reduce time scarcity, adding balancing measures to performance monitoring systems to promote patient-centered care, and creating work cultures that support the values of nursing.
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Explores empirically the role that coaching plays in the development of nurse managers in order to inform further research and policy makers about the potential utility and value of this means of development. Findings show that following coaching, nurse managers gained increased resilience, confidence and better coping mechanisms. This resulted in perceived improved team management and cohesion and appeared to lead to better quality of care for patients.
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This article looks at The intensive care unit (ICU) is a stressful environment due to high patient mortality and morbidity, daily confrontations with ethical dilemmas, and a tension-charged
atmosphere. It proposes various interventions to enhance the ICU atmosphere and concludes that the critical care professional societies, hospitals, and other stakeholders all have a responsibility to acknowledge that moral distress occurs—and to develop strategies to identify moral distress among their members and employees.
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The purpose of this article is to provide evidence-based solutions for nurse leaders looking to retain a multigenerational workforce. Today our nursing leaders are faced with many challenges, the greatest of which is effectively managing our multigenerational workforce. This article will provide insight on how to address challenges in the workforce and suggest solutions. Understanding the workforce allows leaders to reach their fullest potential and increase nurse retention. In the unstable, ever-changing environment of health care, one thing we can offer our nurses is leadership grounded in caring science and an environment in which they can thrive and feel supported, to alleviate burnout.
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Previous research has indicated that people living with dementia are able to use touchscreen technology, which presents an opportunity to deliver meaningful and engaging activities for people to pass the time independently. The challenge is to identify suitable applications from the thousands that are currently available, and familiarity, where an app is a digital version of an existing real world game, may be one solution. To evaluate the concept of familiarity in gameplay with people living with dementia by comparing a known game with a novel game and measuring whether users are able to play these games independently and whether they enjoy doing so. Regardless of which game was played or whether the checkpoint was reached, 88% of all participants reported enjoyment of the gaming sessions. People living with dementia can play touchscreen games independently, but familiarity does not ensure successful gameplay. Enjoyment appears to be independent of progression through a game. The potential of novel and unfamiliar games as meaningful activities that people with dementia can engage with independently should be further explored.
Does familiarity affect the enjoyment of touchscreen games for people with dementia? (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effects of a folk recreation program on the symptoms of people with dementia. The program was tailored to the participants’ interest and derived from their traditional culture background. Conclusions The folk recreation program has the potential to improve cognitive function, ability of daily living and behavioral and psychological symptoms of the elders with dementia. The folk leisure activities, which embed in the participants’ cultural background, will motivate their positive feelings and memories, can delay the progression of disease and improve the symptoms.
The effect of folk recreation program in improving symptoms: A study of chinese elder dementia patients. (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library for a copy of the article or call 0161 291 5778)