Safety Workaround of Registered Nurses in Malaysian Public Hospitals: A Pilot Study

Safety workarounds stay a crucial concern for employers, significantly within the healthcare industry wherever hospital nurses' safety has deteriorated throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. This pilot study used descriptive and correlational analyses to explore and analyse the reliability of the constructs of communication barriers, work engagement, and burnout on safety workarounds, and also their relationship. This study was conducted with 30 registered nurses in public hospitals in the State of Perak, Malaysia. The results showed that all scales to measure burnout, work engagement, communication barriers, and safety workaround had moderate to excellent feasibility and had sufficient test-retest reliability. The results also indicate that all two independent factors, namely burnout and communication barrier, were shown to be negatively and significantly correlated with safety workaround, whereas work engagement was found to be positively and significantly correlated with safety workaround. This study is anticipated to fill a spot within the literature as a result of there hasn't been a lot of analysis on nurses' safety workarounds within the Malaysian setting. These results may contribute to a stronger understanding of the constructs of communication barriers, work engagement, and burnout and how to deal with safety workaround of registered nurses in Malaysian public hospitals.

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Test–Retest Reliability of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey Instrument

Journal of Nursing Measurement ◽

10.1891/1061-3749.24.1.54 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 54-68 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Kathleen A. Calzone ◽

Stacey Culp ◽

Jean Jenkins ◽

Sarah Caskey ◽

Pamela B. Edwards ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Registered Nurses ◽

Nursing Practice ◽

Weighted Kappa ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

Practice Survey ◽

Instrument Performance ◽

Item Responses ◽

Genetics And Genomics ◽

Test Retest Reliability

Background and Purpose: Assessment of nursing genomic competency is critical given increasing genomic applications to health care. The study aims were to determine the test–retest reliability of the Genetics and Genomics in Nursing Practice Survey (GGNPS), which measures this competency, and to revise the survey accordingly. Methods: Registered nurses (n = 232) working at 2 Magnet-designated hospitals participating in a multiinstitutional genomic competency study completed the GGNPS. Cohen’s kappa and weighted kappa were used to measure the agreement of item responses between Time 1 and Time 2. Survey items were revised based on the results. Results: Mean agreement for the instrument was 0.407 (range = 0.150–1.000). Moderate agreement or higher was achieved in 39% of the items. Conclusions: GGNPS test–retest reliability was not optimal, and the instrument was refined based on the study findings. Further testing of the revised instrument is planned to assess the instrument performance.

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Linking authentic leadership and management capability to public hospital performance: the role of work engagement

International Journal of Organizational Analysis ◽

10.1108/ijoa-10-2020-2436 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Mohammed Aboramadan ◽

Main Naser Alolayyan ◽

Mehmet Ali Turkmenoglu ◽

Berat Cicek ◽

Caterina Farao

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Authentic Leadership ◽

Hospital Performance ◽

Public Hospitals ◽

Mediation Effect ◽

Leadership And Management ◽

Content Type ◽

Management Capability ◽

The Impact

Purpose This paper aims to propose a model of the effect of both authentic leadership and management capability on hospital performance. This model proposes work engagement as an intervening mechanism between the aforesaid links. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 380 medical staff working in Jordanian Public hospitals and were analysed using the structural equation modelling analysis technique. Findings The results suggest that both authentic leadership and management capability have a positive effect on hospital performance. Although positive, the direct effect of management capability on performance was not significant. Furthermore, work engagement demonstrated to play a full mediation effect between management capability and hospital performance and a partial mediation effect between authentic leadership and hospital performance. Practical implications This study may be of use for public medical services providers in general and other services sectors in terms of the role authentic leadership and management resources can play in contributing to positive work-related outcomes at the individual and organisational levels. Originality/value Considering the mainstream literature in health-care management, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to date to integrate the impact of both authentic leadership and management capabilities in the public health-care sector. Further, the research model has not previously been introduced when taking into account the role that work engagement can play between the examined variables.

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Development and Validation of a Web-Based Survey on the Use of Personal Communication Devices by Hospital Registered Nurses: Pilot Study

JMIR Research Protocols ◽

10.2196/resprot.2774 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. e50 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Deborah L McBride ◽

Sandra A LeVasseur ◽

Dongmei Li

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Registered Nurses ◽

Personal Communication ◽

Web Based ◽

Communication Devices ◽

Development And Validation

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Test-Retest Reliability, Convergent Validity and Practice Effects of the RBANS in a Memory Clinic Setting: A Pilot Study

Open Journal of Medical Psychology ◽

10.4236/ojmp.2013.24b003 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 02 (04) ◽

pp. 11-16 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Yanhong Dong ◽

Claire L. Thompson ◽

Shi Huey Joanne Tan ◽

Leon Ben Swie Lim ◽

Wanshin Pang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Convergent Validity ◽

Practice Effects ◽

Memory Clinic ◽

Retest Reliability ◽

Clinic Setting ◽

Test Retest Reliability

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Salutary factors explaining why hospital nurses remain in work and the profession

10.21203/rs.3.rs-16221/v2 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Håkan Nunstedt ◽

Monica Eriksson ◽

Ayman Obeid ◽

Lisbeth Hillström ◽

Anh Truong ◽

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Keyword(s):

Registered Nurses ◽

Sense Of Coherence ◽

Success Factors ◽

Intention To Leave ◽

Well Being ◽

Three Dimensions ◽

Good Work ◽

Hospital Nurses ◽

Individual Interviews ◽

Interview Guide

Abstract Background: There is extensive research on how nurses experience their working conditions and environment; this research shows high job stress, job dissatisfaction and intention to leave the workplace. Objective: To explore and describe success factors explaining why hospital nurses remain in work and the profession. Methods: The salutogenic theory was used as a basis for the interview guide, which contained semi-structured, open-ended questions about factors important to explaining why nurses remain in work and the profession. Data collection took place from March to June 2018. Individual interviews with twelve registered nurses working in a hospital in western Sweden were conducted. The data were analyzed using content analysis; additionally, sense of coherence (and its three dimensions: comprehensibility, manageability, and meaningfulness) was used as a tool to structure analyses of the qualitative data. Results: The following factors emerged from the analysis: having fun at work, being acknowledged, feeling togetherness in the team, having varying tasks with a manageable workload, good interaction between colleagues and patients, doing good work, feeling committed to and pride in the professional role, and having a balance between work and leisure time.Conclusions: One precondition of improving registered nurses’ health and well-being was having clear leadership. Another precondition was having a sense of coherence in relation to both the working group and the organization. Experiencing job satisfaction and being acknowledged for one’s good work were important; acknowledgement was received not only from patients, but also from colleagues, other professionals and the nurse manager. In this way, the nurses felt acknowledged and could create a sense of meaningfulness, manageability and comprehensibility in their work.

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A PROPOSED PILOT STUDY OF A GRATITUDE PRACTICE PROGRAM TO INCREASE GRATITUDE AMONG EDUCATORS: THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF GRATITUDE PRACTICE TO INCREASE WORK ENGAGEMENT AND BUFFER AGAINST AND DECREASE BURNOUT

International Journal of Child Youth and Family Studies ◽

10.18357/ijcyfs72201615722 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 275

Author(s):

Jasmin Wandell

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Work Engagement ◽

Font Size ◽

Educational Settings ◽

Future Studies ◽

Group Coaching ◽

Real World Problem ◽

International Issue ◽

Full Day ◽

Weekly Group

<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 24pt 36pt;"><span style="color: #131413; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Burnout in educational settings is an international issue. Drawing on practitioner experience in Flexi schools for disenfranchised young people and the methods of positive psychology, this paper outlines a gratitude practice program (GPP) as a proposed intervention to address burnout within Flexi schools. The proposed intervention comprises a full-day workshop and 10 weekly group coaching sessions that aim to develop gratitude practice among teachers. The intention of the paper is to consider the GPP’s capacity to increase gratitude and the potential benefit of the program to participants. This proposed pilot study will be delivered to 14 educators in a single school. A pretest-posttest, multi-method design of evaluation will be presented and discussed. The GPP’s capacity to increase gratitude will be evaluated utilising a gratitude questionnaire. A focus group will be used to ascertain the benefit of the program. It is predicted that the GPP will increase gratitude and will be found beneficial by participants. The potential of the GPP to increase work engagement is discussed in terms of future studies. This proposed pilot study offers a practical intervention that can potentially address the real-world problem of burnout in alternative educational settings.</span></p>

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