BACKGROUND Case managers have been introduced in primary palliative care in the Netherlands; these are nurses with expertise in palliative care who offer support to patients and informal carers in addition to the care provided by the general practitioner (GP) and home-care nurse. OBJECTIVES To compare cancer patients with and without additional support from a case manager on: 1) the patients'...

In last January’s Manager column, “Fear of Trying: The Plight of the Rookie Project Manager,” Roger Pressman asked a question critical to the future of our profession: “So, how do we grow a good project manager? What do we teach the rookie who has just been appointed to lead her first software project?” Instead of answering this question directly, Pressman focused his article on four key skills...

The hospital’s demand to increase nurse job satisfaction is influenced by various factors including theimplementation of good patient care management. In nursing professional development, satisfactionprovides guidelines for hospital services. This study aims determine the relationship between patientcare management and satisfaction. A cross-sectional was conducted among 303 nurses workingin a r...

Background: COVID-19 is an unprecedented health crisis that has strongly shaken the whole world. There a paucity of studies comparing perception nurse practice environment in Philippines. Aim: To determine Filipino nurses' and compare respondents' perceptions according to socio-demographic profiles. Design: This study utilized descriptive-comparative design, using Practice Environment Survey- N...

BACKGROUND A positive patient safety climate within teams has been associated with higher safety performance. The aim of this study was to describe and compare attitudes to patient safety among the various professionals in surgical teams in Swedish operating room (OR) departments. A further aim was to study nurse managers in the OR and medical directors' estimations of their staffs' attitudes t...

Today’s nurse managers (NMs) are challenged to be visionary and innovative leaders who embrace change, manage diverse groups of employees, and address the complex demands of patients and families. Nurse managers need to be educated and knowledgeable on health care reform including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, oversee multimillion dollar budgets, leverage technology, and champ...

it is widely accepted in many parts of the world thatcommunity nurses are of vital importance in various phases of disaster response and management. in china, however, it is not clear whether the chinese community nurses are able to assume disaster-related duties due to the lack of a systematic assessment.a pre-designed and well-tested questionnaire was employed to evaluate the competency in di...

Background: In terms of improving employee performance, hospitals must have efforts that aim to motivate employees be disciplined and a work spirit in doing their jobs, while the can made are implement good hospital management. Motivation will formed if management applied by agency is good, so self-improvement service quality run itself. This study aimed analyze relationship between on motivati...