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Understanding Nurses’ Behavior from the Bedside to the Boardroom: Challenges and Solutions

A special issue of Behavioral Sciences (ISSN 2076-328X). This special issue belongs to the section "Organizational Behaviors".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2024) | Viewed by 4361

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Lisa Boss

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School of Nursing, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX 76402, USA
Interests: biobehavioral; nursing education; leadership; nursing; mental health
Dr. Linda Cole

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Guest Editor
Cizik School of Nursing, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030-3901, USA
Interests: nursing leadership; educational strategies; nurse resiliency

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The downstream effect of nurses’ behavior is significant in terms of its direct influence on patient outcomes, as well as employee mental and physical health. Regardless of the work setting, understanding nurses’ behavior and its positive or negative consequences is necessary in our complex and rapidly changing healthcare environment. In the context of challenges and solutions, enhancing our perspectives on this topic will advance the science while aiming to achieve the goal of continuously improving patient outcomes, as well as employee mental and physical health.

In this Special Issue, we invite original research, quality improvement initiatives, case reports, and literature reviews (i.e., systematic, scoping, integrative) exploring the psychology of nurses’ behavior in all settings from the bedside to the boardroom.

Topics of interest can include, but are not limited to: incivility, burnout, compassion fatigue, resiliency, stress, work behaviors, caring behaviors, engagement, listening, assertiveness, coping, professionalism, leadership, and innovative behaviors.

Dr. Lisa Boss
Dr. Linda Cole
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2200 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • nursing
  • incivility
  • burnout
  • compassion fatigue
  • resiliency
  • stress
  • work behaviors
  • caring behaviors
  • engagement
  • listening
  • assertiveness
  • coping
  • professionalism
  • leadership
  • innovative behaviors

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Consecutive Shifts: A Repeated Measure Study to Evaluate Stress, Biomarkers, Social Support, and Fatigue in Medical/Surgical Nurses
by Mona Cockerham, Duck-Hee Kang and Margaret E. Beier
Behav. Sci. 2023, 13(7), 571; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13070571 - 10 Jul 2023
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Nurses report that they are required to work during their scheduled breaks and generally experience extended work times and heavy workloads due to staffing shortages. This study aimed to examine changes in personal, work-related, and overall stress, as well as biological responses and [...] Read more.
Nurses report that they are required to work during their scheduled breaks and generally experience extended work times and heavy workloads due to staffing shortages. This study aimed to examine changes in personal, work-related, and overall stress, as well as biological responses and fatigue experienced by nurses during three consecutive 12 h workdays (i.e., the typical “three-twelves” schedule). We also considered the moderating effects of social resources. This prospective study of 81 medical/surgical nurses who completed questionnaires and provided saliva samples at four designated intervals (i.e., pre-shift and post-shift on workdays 1 and 3). Fatigue reported by night shift nurses increased significantly over three consecutive workdays (p = 0.001). Day shift nurses said they encountered more social support than those on the night shift (p = 0.05). Social support moderated the relationship between work-related stress at baseline and reported fatigue on day 3. Full article
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Nursing Graduates’ Preparedness for Practice: Substantiating the Call for Competency-Evaluated Nursing Education
by Tammy McGarity, Laura Monahan, Katelijne Acker and Wendi Pollock
Behav. Sci. 2023, 13(7), 553; https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13070553 - 04 Jul 2023
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Practice readiness continues to be a challenge in healthcare. This was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This focused descriptive–correlational study examined nurses’ perceived preparedness for practice during the pandemic. One hundred and eighty-four registered nurses (RN) responded to Qualtrics survey questions addressing [...] Read more.
Practice readiness continues to be a challenge in healthcare. This was especially evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. This focused descriptive–correlational study examined nurses’ perceived preparedness for practice during the pandemic. One hundred and eighty-four registered nurses (RN) responded to Qualtrics survey questions addressing the competencies they perceived they had and the competencies they felt they needed that would have better prepared them to care for patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results demonstrated that although these nurses felt competent in certain areas, they perceived that they needed more education in those same areas to feel better prepared. Bivariate correlations and linear regression analysis indicated that institutional competency development, education, and work experience influenced perceived competency. Full article
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