scholarly journals COVID-19 anxiety and organizational commitment among front-line nurses: Perceived role of nurse managers' caring behavior

Author(s):  
Manar Ahmed Elbadawy Abdelrehem Faramawy ◽  
Aziza Ibrahim Abd El Kader

Background & Aim: Anxiety related to the COVID-19 is prevalent amongst the nursing workforce potentially affecting nurses’ well-being and their organizational commitment. The nurse manager’s caring behavior has been recognized as a crucial indicator of nurses' resilience with the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to investigate the effect of COVID-19 anxiety on front-line nurses’ organizational commitment and their perception of nurse managers' caring behavior. Methods & Materials: This study utilized an explanatory research design; hence, a convenient sample consisted of 60 registered nurses working at three selected medical intensive care units located in one of the Cairo University Teaching hospitals, Egypt was selected. Data were collected using the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale, Nursing Staff Organizational Commitment Questionnaire, and Nurse Managers' Caring Behavior Questionnaire. Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 was used for the data analysis where the descriptive statistics, Simple Linear, and Stepwise multiple regression analysis were applied. Results: The highest-rated anxiety problem of COVID-19 was appetite loss (x ̅=3.03, SD = ±0.88). Human respect as one of the perceived nurse managers caring behaviors emerged as a strong predictor (Partial R2 = 0.104, p= .017) in increasing the front-line nurses’ organizational commitment, while COVID-19 anxiety has a significant decreasing effect (Partial R2 = 0.435, p<0.001) on it. Conclusion: COVID-19 anxiety has affected the front-line nurses’ organizational commitment and their perceived nurse managers' caring behavior. COVID-19 anxiety should be addressed and rectified by providing appropriate managerial caring behavior and support to boost nurses ‘organizational commitment.

Author(s):  
Hilary Moss

This position paper presents a new paradigm about the intrinsic structure and nature of arts and health practice. This paradigm is based on a variety of research experiences over twenty years working as a music therapist, musician, music and health practitioner, researcher and director of an arts and health programme in university teaching hospitals, community contexts, and non-governmental organizations in Ireland and the UK.The aim of this paper is to propose a new perspective on the term arts and health, to encompass all arts related activity that exists in contexts related to health. This paradigm aims to counter the artificial and defensive barriers constructed between practitioners and professional groups within the field, encourage greater respect and understanding between practitioners and assist in identifying training and development needs for the various arts professionals working in contexts related to health and well-being. It is proposed that the current commonly held assumptions surrounding definitions of arts and health and arts therapies are unhelpful and problematic and should be refined.


Author(s):  
Stefan Bittmann

COVID-19 is a serious coronavirus disease that is spreading all over the world. As of the date of this publication, 2.834.134 people have been infected with COVID-19 and 197.924 deaths have been recorded in 185 countries (John Hopkins Corona Resource Center, 25th April 2020) [1]. This overwhelming mortality rate requires intensive research activities around the world. To date, the number of deaths per day in the United States is still killing, indicating an uncontrollable state of infection spread. SARS-CoV-2 binds to the angiotensin II receptor in various tissues of the human body, particularly in the oral cavity and tongue. SARS-CoV-2 requires the cheerful TMPRSS2 to activate this inertia. SARS-CoV-2 uses the ACE2 receptor as a gateway to the lungs. The SARS-CoV-2 virus binds with the spike protein to the ACE2 receptor. COVID-19 is more common among African Americans in the USA (Science 10th April 2020). The comfort and the emotional loading capacity of the employees in the health service are key components for the maintenance of the essential health services during the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus (Coronavirus) [2,3]. Hence, it will be important to anticipate the charges linked with this work and to release support for employees in the health service. The supervision and assessment of the psychic health and the well-being of the employees in the health service will be important, just as the efforts to guarantee a successful reunion with colleagues if they are infected.


Author(s):  
Tanja Laukkala ◽  
Jaana Suvisaari ◽  
Tom Rosenström ◽  
Eero Pukkala ◽  
Kristiina Junttila ◽  
...  

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unequally distributed extra workload to hospital personnel and first reports have indicated that especially front-line health care personnel are psychologically challenged. A majority of the Finnish COVID-19 patients are cared for in the Helsinki University Hospital district. The psychological distress of the Helsinki University Hospital personnel has been followed via an electronic survey monthly since June 2020. We report six-month follow-up results of a prospective 18-month cohort study. Individual variation explained much more of the total variance in psychological distress (68.5%, 95% CI 65.2–71.9%) and negative changes in sleep (75.6%, 95% CI 72.2–79.2%) than the study survey wave (1.6%, CI 0.5–5.5%; and 0.3%, CI 0.1–1.2%). Regional COVID-19 incidence rates correlated with the personnel’s psychological distress. In adjusted multilevel generalized linear multiple regression models, potentially traumatic COVID-19 pandemic-related events (OR 6.54, 95% CI 5.00–8.56) and front-line COVID-19 work (OR 1.81, 95% CI 1.37–2.39) was associated with personnel psychological distress but age and gender was not. While vaccinations have been initiated, creating hope, continuous follow-up and psychosocial support is still needed for all hospital personnel.


2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-470
Author(s):  
V. N. Srivastava

Organizational culture has become a widely researched topic and efforts to understand the phenomena surrounding managerial motivation have been even more widespread. The most important reason for this is that employee motivation continues to be a big problem and organizational culture plays an important role in determining employee motivation. Organizational Culture is a deeply rooted phenomena, which is the end — product of several variables, most of them being the offshoots of HR policies and practices. The present research study attempts to find out the predictors of managerial motivation in Indian Public Enterprises with the help of some newly constructed scales of organizational commitment and organizational culture. Organizational commitment is treated as dependent variable and 11 dimensions of organizational culture are used as independent variables. The study is carried out on a sample of 72 managers from two well-known public enterprises. The major finding of the study is that two completely different sets of predictors are at work in different organizations in the two public sector enterprises. Even though organizational culture is found to be a strong predictor of managerial motivation in each organization, the particular dimension of culture that influence motivation is found to be organization specific.


2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Hsueh-Feng Wang ◽  
Yu-Chia Chen ◽  
Feng-Hua Yang ◽  
Chi-Wen Juan

Rapid changes in the healthcare environment necessitate improvements in employee performance. We examined the relationship between nurse managers' transformational leadership and nurses' job performance, and the key mediating role of psychological safety in this relationship. Personnel at six private regional teaching hospitals in Central Taiwan participated in this study, comprising 73 nurse managers and 719 nurses. The results show that when the intergroup heterogeneity of job performance was statistically significant, a positive correlation existed between transformational leadership and job performance at the group level. Next, we performed an analysis using psychological safety as a mediating variable. The results show there was a significant correlation between transformational leadership and perception of psychological safety. This model exhibited lower variance and a better fit than the other examined models. Thus, emphasizing transformational leadership and psychological safety in operations and management could effectively improve nurses' job performance; this recommendation could serve as a standard for nurse managers in their duties.


Author(s):  
Kyu-soo Chung

The purpose of this study is to reveal the role of ethnic sport participants' subjective well-being as it interacts with its antecedents and consequences. The antecedents are participants' perceived benefits of sport participation and their satisfaction with an event. The consequences are participants' organizational commitment and their ethnic identity. The dynamics of subjective well-being and those constructs were tested at the 2015 Korean American Sports Festival where 283 Korean American participants reported on self-administered questionnaires. The collected data were first analyzed via confirmatory factor analysis; structural equation modeling was then used to secure the magnitude and significance of each path designed in the model. The social, psychological, and health benefits of sport participation positively affected satisfaction with the event, and satisfaction in turn affected subjective well-being. Subjective well-being positively influenced organizational commitment. Ethnic identity had a mediating effect on the relation between subjective well-being and organizational commitment. This study highlights the importance of ethnic sport participants' subjective well-being in understanding how the quality of their experience makes them committed to an ethnic sport organization. Ethnic sporting events can implement the findings to facilitate an increase in the subjective well-being of their events' participants.


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-20
Author(s):  
Gabriel Naibaho

High motivation in a person will encourage them to act properly so that it will affect the productivity of work, conversely, if the nurses are not guided by a strong desire and motivation to work it will have an impact on work satisfaction of the nurses and it reflects a low caring behavior that make the nurses become lazy and in doing their activities of serving and taking care of the patients. Goal:The purpose of this study to analyze the effects of exercise range of motion The objective of this study is to investigate the correlation between work motivation with nurses’ caring behaviors in internist room of Santa Elisabeth Hospital Medan. Methods:This study uses a correlative descriptive research design with cross sectional approach. The technique of sampling was performed by using non-probability technique with convenience sampling, with 51 respondents using questionnaire sheets of work motivation 20 statements and 42 statement of the nurses’ caring behavior. Result:The result of the study shows that work motivation category good is as many as 44 (86.3%) nurses, and category good enough is 7 (13.7%) nurses. The nurses’ caring behavior with good category is 16 (31.4%) nurses, good enough is 35 (68.6%) nurses. Conclusion:Based on spearman’s rho test P value = 0.001 and correlation coefficient = 0.603 it can be concluded that research hypothesis (Ha) is accepted that is there is correlation between work motivation with nurses’ caring beahvior in internis room of Elisabeth Hospital Medan. It is suggested to nurses to improve the knowledge, attitudes and skills especially when carrying out their role as executor of professional nursing actions.


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