Month: January 2018

Perceptions of Risk and Safety in the ICU: A Qualitative Study of Cognitive Processes Relating to Staffing* (Critical Care Medicine, 2018, 46(1) p. 60-70)

The aims of this study were to examine individual professionals’ perceptions of staffing risks and safe staffing in intensive care and identify and examine the cognitive processes that underlie these perceptions. Perceptions of safety hinged around the importance of achieving a “dynamic balance” influenced by the burden of prevailing circumstances and the clinical status of patients.

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How does burnout impact the three components of nursing professional commitment? (Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2017, 31(4) p. 1003-1011)

This study aims to investigate the relationships between burnout and the three components of nursing professional commitment. Results indicated that burnout is negatively related to affective and normative professional commitment but not related to continuance professional commitment.

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Vulnerability to burnout within the nursing workforce-The role of personality and interpersonal behaviour. (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2017, 26(23/24) p. 4622-4633)

To study the combination of personality and interpersonal behaviour of staff nurses in general hospitals in relation to burnout and its separate dimensions.

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Predictors of occupational burnout among nurses: a dominance analysis of job stressors. (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2017, 26(23/24) p. 4286-4292)

Nurses often experience stressors at work that can lead to burnout. The study found that interpersonal relationships and management issues most strongly predicted participants’ burnout job stressors, particularly interpersonal relationships and management issues, which significantly predict nurses’ job burnout.

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The protective role of self-efficacy against workplace incivility and burnout in nursing: A time-lagged study. (Health Care Management Review, 2018, 43(1) p. 21-29)

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of relational occupational coping self-efficacy in protecting nurses from workplace incivility and related burnout and turnover intentions. Structural equation modelling was used to test the hypothesized model. Overall, the results supported the hypothesized protective effect of relational occupational coping self-efficacy against incivility and later burnout, mental health, and turnover intentions.

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Community nurses need a way to manage caseloads: NHS Improvement and NHS England are finalising an improvement resource to address safe staffing in district nursing. ( Nursing Management , 2017, 24(8) p. 14)

The article reports that NHS Improvement and NHS England are finalising an improvement resource to address safe staffing in district nursing. Topics discussed include the work of the Queen’s Nursing Institute on safe staffing in community nursing, NHS England’s Five Year Forward View, published in 2014, and the document “Understanding Safe Caseloads in the District Nursing Service.”

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The state of the nursing workforce today. (British Journal of Nursing 2017, 26(20) p. 1143-1143)

The article discusses the author’s views about the state of the nursing workforce in Great Britain as of 2017, and it mentions various threats to the nursing profession, as well as information about a British Nursing and Midwifery Council report which indicates that more nurses are leaving the professional register than joining it.

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Variation in job titles within the nursing workforce. (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2017, 26 (23/24) p. 4945-4950)

Aims and objectives/background The work of specialist nursing has been under scrutiny for many years in the UK due to a perception that it is not cost-effective. A common issue is the lack of consistency of job titles, which causes confusion to the public, employing organisations, colleagues and commissioners of services.

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Burnout and its association with resilience in nurses: A cross-sectional study. (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2018, 27(1/2) p. 441-449)

Aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and extent of burnout on nurses and its association with personal resilience. Results Nurses experienced severe burnout symptoms and showed a moderate level of resilience. Three metrics of burnout had significantly negative correlations with the total score and following variables of resilience.

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The protective role of self-efficacy against workplace incivility and burnout in nursing: A time-lagged study. (Health Care Management Review, 2018, 43(1) p. 21-29)

The aim of the study was to investigate the role of relational occupational coping self-efficacy in protecting nurses from workplace incivility and related burnout and turnover intentions. The findings show that organizations should provide nurses with opportunities to build their coping strategies for managing job demands and difficult interpersonal interactions. Similarly, providing exposure to effective role models and providing meaningful verbal encouragement are other sources of efficacy information for building nurses’ relational coping self-efficacy.

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