The Effects of Work Factors on Nurses’ Job satisfaction, Quality of Care, and Turnover Intentions in Oncology (Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2018, Jan, Epub)

The authors examined the effects of perceived supervisor support, value congruence and hospital nurse staffing on nurses’ job satisfaction through the satisfaction of the three psychological needs for autonomy, competence and relatedness.

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Nursing staff retention: Effective factors (Ann Trop Med Public Health, 2017, Vol 10 p. 1467-73)

Understanding the factors that influence the intent to stay of the staff is one of the strategies to retain nurses. The objective of this study is to find personal factors (physical, mental-emotional, social) and organizational factors (job stress, social support, and job satisfaction and organizational factors) that influence the nursing staff retention.

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Preparing supervisors to provide safeguarding supervision for healthcare staff. (Nursing Management – UK, 2017, 24(8) p. 34-41)

This paper outlines why experienced supervisors at a London healthcare provider received skills training so they could offer safeguarding supervision to front-line colleagues with case management responsibilities for vulnerable children and young people. It examines how supervisors use the main functions of supervision and a cycle of reflection in clinical practice with supervisees.

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Quality Improvement: Staff Radiation Exposure Reduction While Maintaining Patient Safety. (Journal of Radiology Nursing, 2017, 36(4) p. 242-244)

Radiology nurses continuously strive for improved patient safety. However, these practices may lead to unanticipated decreased staff safety. Nursing leadership identified an increase in quarterly dosimeter readings among staff and found that the root cause was linked to insufficient education and practices regarding radiation exposure times.

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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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