Category: Nursing Productivity

Aim: To identify relationships among variables affecting nurses’ performance and productivity, namely professional attitudes, organisational culture, organisational justice and exposure to mobbing.
Background: The determination of the factors affecting performance and productivity is important for providing efficient nursing services. These factors have been investigated in the literature independently, but the relationship among them has not been clearly identified.
Results: The professional attitude score of the nurses was high (4.35 ± 0.63). However, their organisational justice (2.22 ± 1.26) and organisational culture (2.47 ± 0.71) scores were low. Nurses were subjected to mobbing at a high level (0.82 ± 0.78). As the organisational justice increased, the organisational culture increased and the mobbing decreased. As the organisation culture decreased, the mobbing increased.
Conclusions: There was a positive correlation between organisation culture and organisational justice of the nurses and a negative correlation with mobbing.
Implications for nursing management: The results of the study are essential for improving nurses’ performance and productivity.

Factors affecting performance and productivity of nurses: professional attitude, organisational justice, organisational culture and mobbing. (Journal of Nursing Management, Mar 2016) (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)

Roadmap for hospitals calls for standardisation and transparency to ensure that trusts meet savings targets.
THE STARTING gun has been fired. After 18 months of work, Lord Carter’s roadmap for hospitals to achieve £5 billion a year of spending cuts has been published.

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Workplace incivility, or bullying, experienced by nurses has been shown to have negative consequences
on nurses and the care they provide patients. Nurses’ roles are being challenged in the healthcare environment
because of incivility in the workplace. These negative outcomes exist despite the support provided by teams on
which these nurses work. This literature review is focused on the prevalence and effect of nurse bullying (nurseon-
nurse, as well as physician-on-nurse) and the influence of such incivility on healthcare teamwork. Specific
attention is given to three important team behaviors: leadership, trust, and communication.

Influence of teamwork behaviors on workplace incivility as it applies. (Creighton Journal of Interdisciplinary Leadership. 2016 2(1)). (Follow this link if you have an Athens password). Alternatively contact the UHSM Academy Library

This paper aims to evaluate fixed scheduling compared with self-scheduling for nursing staff in oncological inpatient care with regard to patient and staff outcomes.

Changed nursing scheduling for improved safety culture and working conditions – patients’ and nurses’ perspectives (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)

This paper seeks to assess whether establishing a support center for nursing research has resulted in an increase in scientific production in terms of the numbers of protocols approved (primary outcome), articles published and nurse authors involved in the publications (secondary outcomes).

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