Effect of nursing workplace empowering model on quality of nursing work life as perceived by professional nurses in a governmental hospital, Cambodia.

Background: Nursing is experiencing an unprecedented shortage of skilled professionals as supply dwindles and demand escalates. For this reason, organizations are diligently trying to understand both what attracts nurses to a certain employer and what retains nurses in an organization. The purposes of this quasi-experimental design were to study the perceptive level of professional nurses and compare the pretest and posttest the use of nursing workplace empowering model on quality of nursing work life. Methods: The Quality of Nursing Work Life Scale was used with total reliability coefficient at = 0.843. Regarding to the study's model, the professional nurses of experimental group have been used for daily work. The Mann-Whitney tested for comparing the experimental group and control group. Moreover, the Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test was used to compare the experimental group and control group and before and after implementing the nursing workplace empowering model. Results: The major findings indicated that the professional nurses who used NWEM were significantly higher scores than who did not use the NWEM at .05 level. In addition, the experimental group after implemented the NWEM was higher scores than before implementing NWEM at 0.05 level. Conclusions: The nurses' perceptions of structural and psychological empowerment are significantly increased flexibility, relaxation, free expression, and support. The structural and psychological empowerment had a direct effect on the all variables of the model.

Nursing care quality: a concept analysis.

The purpose of this paper is to provide a clear definition of nursing care quality that contributes to the formulation, application, and measurement of quality nursing outcomes for patients, organisations, and nursing staff. It also indicates the manner in which, by using the definition, empirically based operational definitions can be developed for different operational environments and settings. The study employed a concept analysis methodology to extract terms, attributes, antecedents, and consequences (outcomes) from relevant literature databases. The analysis identified nine attributes: nurse competency performance, met nursing care needs, good experiences for patients, good leadership, staff characteristics, preconditions of care, physical environment, progress of nursing process, and cooperation with relatives. Antecedences include nurse-staffing levels, positive practice environment, and nursing turnover. Consequences include patient safety, patient satisfaction, nursing outcomes, nurse satisfaction, and budget management. Because of the breadth and depth of modern nursing practice, further research and development of the concept is required.

Relationship between nursing care quality, nurse staffing, nurse job satisfaction, nurse practice environment, and burnout: literature review.

The purpose of this literature review is to explore the relationship between nurse staffing, nurse job satisfaction, nurse practice environment, burnout, and nursing care quality through a consideration of what is meant by perceptions of nursing care quality. Different people define nursing care quality in many ways. It is complex, multi-faceted and multi-dimensional, and attempts to assess, monitor, evaluate and improve nursing care quality have evolved over a number of years. Of particular interest is the way in which changes in nurse staffing, nurse job satisfaction, nurse practice environment, and burnout may affect the quality of nursing care delivery. A search was conducted using the CINAHL, Medline and Embase databases, HINARI, Science Direct, Google, and PubMed. The terms searched included quality of health care; nursing care quality; nurse job satisfaction; nurse practice environment; burnout; and nurse staffing. Papers were included for their relevance to the field of enquiry. The original search was conducted in 2003 and updated in 2004. Quality of care is a complex, multi-dimensional concept, which presents researchers with a challenge when attempting to evaluate it. Many different tools have assessed nursing care quality. In addition, the review found that there were relationships between nurse staffing, nurse job satisfaction, nurse practice environment, burnout, and nursing care qualit.

Perceptions of nursing students on effective clinical preceptors in Phnom Penh National Hospitals, Cambodia.

Background: Nursing education has evolved substantially in the last few decades. Preceptorship is important to nursing education for several reasons. The purpose of this study is to describe the effective nursing clinical preceptors in Phnom Penh National Hospitals. Both preceptors and students have reported experiencing constrained relationships, tension and anxiety, which led to failure result or frustrating experiences in clinical teaching and learning. Methods: The stratified sampling of 166 was invited. A cross-sectional design survey was used. The Cronbach’s Alpha Coefficient for all items was 0.945. Results: The findings were given as effective clinical preceptorship had a moderate (3.02, 0.85). The interpersonal relationship (3.51, 0.88), evaluation (3.39, 0.93), personal traits (2.80, 0.83), nursing competencies (3.39, 0.93), and teaching ability (2.70, 0.81). Conclusion: Interpersonal relationship, formative evaluation, giving suggestions and correcting mistakes without belittling was perceived to be important characteristic. It is necessary to integrate clinical teaching skills to clinical preceptors.