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Manager Leadership and Retention of Hospital Staff Nurses

Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1997
This study used causal modeling to trace the effects of manager leadership characteristics on staff registered nurse (RN) retention in 4 urban hospitals. Unique to the study were the all-RN sample, using Leavitt's (1958) model of behavior within an organization to group variables, manager characteristics and unit structure variables as predictors, and
R L, Taunton, D K, Boyle, C Q, Woods, H E, Hansen, M J, Bott   +4 more
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Reactions of Hospital Staff Nurses to Recruitment Incentives

Western Journal of Nursing Research, 2006
In response to the nursing shortage, many hospitals offer sign-on bonuses to attract nurses. There are anecdotal reports that the use of such incentives negatively affects staff nurse morale. The present study is the first to empirically examine the reactions of staff nurses who have not received sign-on bonuses.
Janet, Mantler, Marjorie, Armstrong-Stassen, Martha E, Horsburgh, Sheila J, Cameron   +3 more
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Nursing staff shortage and in‐hospital informal care in an oncology hospital in Greece: The nursing staff's perceptions

International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2008
There is a broad variety of factors that are contributing to the nursing staff shortage. They include low wages, poor image of nursing, job satisfaction, ageing of the nursing workforce and cost reductions. In the Greek National Health System, there is a policy of open‐visiting hours in hospitals.
Despina, Sapountzi-Krepia, Maria, Lavdaniti, Maria, Psychogiou, Panagiotis, Arsenos, Theodossios, Paralikas, Paraskevi, Triantafylidou, Charikleia, Georgiadou   +6 more
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Creating a Hospital-Based Nursing Research Fellowship Program for Staff Nurses

Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 2000
Staff nurses are expected to participate in nursing research and to use study findings. Insufficient institutional support and uncertainties about how to participate in the research process can prevent staff nurses from meeting these expectations. We describe a newly developed nursing research fellowship program designed for staff nurses who practice ...
P S, Hinds, J, Gattuso, A, Morrell
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Nursing Staff in Hospitals and Nursing Homes

1996
Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplace demands?
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Evaluating Primary Nursing in Hospitals: Examination of Effects on Nursing Staff

Medical Care, 1981
Despite widespread support in the nursing literature for the adoption of primary nursing as the optimal method of organizing hospital nursing care, little empirical evidence exists as to its effects on patients or nursing staff. This study compares units that have employed primary nursing for at least five months (N = 31) with nonprimary units (N = 20)
C S, Alexander, C S, Weisman, G A, Chase
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Job satisfaction of nursing staff working in hospitals

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1992
Job satisfaction remains an important consideration for both employer and employee and, despite numerous investigations, many questions about it remain unanswered Many research metholologies have been used with varying degrees of success However, the trend is now away from simple correlational studies towards modelling techniques Data from 221 female ...
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Burnout and coping strategies among hospital staff nurses

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 1989
This study examined the relationship between use of coping strategies and burnout among 150 randomly selected staff nurses from four hospitals Theinstruments used were the frequency dimension of the Maslach Burnout Inventory (Maslach & Jackson 1981) and the Ways of Coping (Revised) (Folkman & Lazarus 1985) In the canonical correlation analysis,
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[Resuscitation skills of hospital nursing staff].

Der Anaesthesist, 1994
The hospital nursing staff represents a distinct group of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) providers. Differences in the success rates of resuscitation attempts inside or outside the hospital seem to be attributable to the skill of the various rescuers. Whereas the definite success rate for prehospital resuscitation is 7%, the corresponding rate for
P, Sefrin, T, Paulus
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Implementation of hospital restructuring and nursing staff perceptions of hospital functioning

Journal of Health Organization and Management, 2004
Hospital restructuring and downsizing has taken place in most developed countries during the past ten years. A small but growing body of research findings has identified aspects of these changes that serve as sources of stress for nursing staff, as well as features of the restructuring process that contribute to more effective transitions.
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