Job satisfaction is vital to nurses’ lives and can affect patient safety, productivity and performance, quality of care, retention and turnover, commitment to the organization and the profession, and the organization itself.1,2 Poor nurse satisfaction leads to negative consequences, such as overburdening workloads, poor quality of patient care, rising expenses associated with turnover and attri...

Nurses (ACEN), the organization of chief nurse executives of teaching hospitals across Canada, has agreed on this position statement on nursing workload. In a previous issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, Affonso et al. (2003) identified workload as a significant issue for nurses in delivering processes of care in a way that supports patient safety. We cannot underestimate the i...

Background: the nurse scheduling problem (NSP) is a serious and complex challenge in medical industry. Effective, efficient, high-quality services must be carried out by nurses hospitals.Purpose: goal of systematic review was to find how have positive impact on shift schedules professional hospitals.Methods: employed PRISMA approach. Electronic search engines from Proquest, Science Direct, Ebsc...

This multi-site evaluative study is the result of work commissioned by a number of National Health Service (NHS) Trusts to evaluate the impact of the nurse consultant role. It explored the views of both stakeholders and nurse consultants and was conducted by Northumbria, Teesside and Bournemouth Universities and a number of their affiliated NHS Trusts. The evaluation was based on the ‘360 degre...

Background: In 2011, a nuclear accident severely affected many hospitals in Fukushima. Many nurses faced adilemma of whether to evacuate voluntarily or keep working. This study examined the voluntary evacuation andreturning and then suggested how nurse administrators can prepare for such situations.Methods: The was conducted from July through September 2018. Eight hundred who had beenworking pr...