Leadership toward positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand: clinical nurse manager perspectives

<p><b>Clinical nurse managers play a vital role in the healthcare system. They are responsible for the day to day running of departments and ensuring that patients are safely cared for. The leadership behaviour and practices of a clinical nurse manager are fundamental for establishing and maintaining positive workplace culture, which is important for nurse performance and quality patient outcomes. This research sought to understand how clinical nurse managers build positive culture in their workplace and to identify leadership attributes and actions that they perceive to be important for generating positive workplace culture. Furthermore, it aimed to identify the challenges of creating positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand.</b></p> <p>A qualitative descriptive design was used to capture rich in-depth understanding and insight into clinical nurse manager experiences of positive workplace culture from their position in nursing leadership. Ten clinical nurse managers from one secondary hospital within the North Island of Aotearoa participated in semi structured face-to-face interviews. Data was transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis with assistance of NVIVO 12 coding software to manage the process of analysing transcripts. </p> <p>Findings demonstrated that clinical nurse managers deliberately engage in strategies to build positive workplace culture and the more prepared they were for their role, the better equipped they were to do so. Three themes were identified: role preparation, achieving perspective, and intentionality. The theme of role preparation describes the actions clinical nurse managers use to cope with realities of the job, build good teams, and manage uncertainty. The second theme achieving perspective represents the internal processes clinical nurse managers use to understand situations and make decisions. The final theme intentionality describes the leadership strategies clinical nurse managers use to enhance collaborative behaviour and positive relationships within the team. </p> <p>To prepare and develop nurses into leadership positions, organisations and executive leadership teams must actively invest in the preparation of this workforce. Establishing educational prerequisites and having structured orientation and mentoring programmes will build a clinical nurse manager workforce that is equipped to foster positive workplace culture in Aotearoa. Furthermore, conducting performance appraisals habitually will provide a foundation for training and development that is needed to keep nurses motivated and engaged in their workplace.</p>

Leadership toward positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand: clinical nurse manager perspectives

<p><b>Clinical nurse managers play a vital role in the healthcare system. They are responsible for the day to day running of departments and ensuring that patients are safely cared for. The leadership behaviour and practices of a clinical nurse manager are fundamental for establishing and maintaining positive workplace culture, which is important for nurse performance and quality patient outcomes. This research sought to understand how clinical nurse managers build positive culture in their workplace and to identify leadership attributes and actions that they perceive to be important for generating positive workplace culture. Furthermore, it aimed to identify the challenges of creating positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand.</b></p> <p>A qualitative descriptive design was used to capture rich in-depth understanding and insight into clinical nurse manager experiences of positive workplace culture from their position in nursing leadership. Ten clinical nurse managers from one secondary hospital within the North Island of Aotearoa participated in semi structured face-to-face interviews. Data was transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis with assistance of NVIVO 12 coding software to manage the process of analysing transcripts. </p> <p>Findings demonstrated that clinical nurse managers deliberately engage in strategies to build positive workplace culture and the more prepared they were for their role, the better equipped they were to do so. Three themes were identified: role preparation, achieving perspective, and intentionality. The theme of role preparation describes the actions clinical nurse managers use to cope with realities of the job, build good teams, and manage uncertainty. The second theme achieving perspective represents the internal processes clinical nurse managers use to understand situations and make decisions. The final theme intentionality describes the leadership strategies clinical nurse managers use to enhance collaborative behaviour and positive relationships within the team. </p> <p>To prepare and develop nurses into leadership positions, organisations and executive leadership teams must actively invest in the preparation of this workforce. Establishing educational prerequisites and having structured orientation and mentoring programmes will build a clinical nurse manager workforce that is equipped to foster positive workplace culture in Aotearoa. Furthermore, conducting performance appraisals habitually will provide a foundation for training and development that is needed to keep nurses motivated and engaged in their workplace.</p>

Leadership toward positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand: clinical nurse manager perspectives

<p><b>Clinical nurse managers play a vital role in the healthcare system. They are responsible for the day to day running of departments and ensuring that patients are safely cared for. The leadership behaviour and practices of a clinical nurse manager are fundamental for establishing and maintaining positive workplace culture, which is important for nurse performance and quality patient outcomes. This research sought to understand how clinical nurse managers build positive culture in their workplace and to identify leadership attributes and actions that they perceive to be important for generating positive workplace culture. Furthermore, it aimed to identify the challenges of creating positive workplace culture in Aotearoa New Zealand.</b></p> <p>A qualitative descriptive design was used to capture rich in-depth understanding and insight into clinical nurse manager experiences of positive workplace culture from their position in nursing leadership. Ten clinical nurse managers from one secondary hospital within the North Island of Aotearoa participated in semi structured face-to-face interviews. Data was transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis with assistance of NVIVO 12 coding software to manage the process of analysing transcripts. </p> <p>Findings demonstrated that clinical nurse managers deliberately engage in strategies to build positive workplace culture and the more prepared they were for their role, the better equipped they were to do so. Three themes were identified: role preparation, achieving perspective, and intentionality. The theme of role preparation describes the actions clinical nurse managers use to cope with realities of the job, build good teams, and manage uncertainty. The second theme achieving perspective represents the internal processes clinical nurse managers use to understand situations and make decisions. The final theme intentionality describes the leadership strategies clinical nurse managers use to enhance collaborative behaviour and positive relationships within the team. </p> <p>To prepare and develop nurses into leadership positions, organisations and executive leadership teams must actively invest in the preparation of this workforce. Establishing educational prerequisites and having structured orientation and mentoring programmes will build a clinical nurse manager workforce that is equipped to foster positive workplace culture in Aotearoa. Furthermore, conducting performance appraisals habitually will provide a foundation for training and development that is needed to keep nurses motivated and engaged in their workplace.</p>

MODERN METHODS OF POP EXCITEMENT OVERCOMING BY FUTURE MUSIC ART TEACHERS DURING PUBLIC PERFORMANCE

In the article the phenomenon of pop excitement, its essential and qualitative features of detection in the music art are considered. The author notes that public performance is always accompanied by excitement. In this state the process of music creating happens, during which all musician’s creative abilities are activated, the reserve capabilities of the individual are accumulated to create vivid concepts of musical works and convey them to the audience. Also, in the article the features of professional and psychological preparation of performers for public performances are revealed. The author considers innovative approaches, methods, techniques, exercises, directions that should be used by future music art teachers to overcome the negative effects of pop excitement during performance on stage. To achieve comfortable mental state during the performance, it is proposed to use the following psychotherapeutic directions in the process of preparing students for performance: NLP – neuro-linguistic programming; body-oriented training; vocal therapy. Thus, the use of NLP allows the teacher to penetrate into the inner world of the individual to reveal his/her reserve capabilities, expand worldview, intensify creative and mental processes. In the process of preparing future music art teachers for public performance, the author pays attention to the fact that the method of «anchoring» will help to overcome negative emotional states, and methods of associations, analogies, comparisons, metaphors, symbols will help to activate various mental states, form new creative ideas. In the article body-oriented training that helps to overcome future music art teachers’ muscle cramps, their emancipation through physical, instrumental and vocal exercises is considered. The author proposes to use the method of vocal therapy, role preparation, the method of playing a concert program in front of an imaginary audience and playing music to overcome the pop excitement on stage, which will ensure performance stability and reliability during the presentation of the program to the audience. The author indicates that the technique of «sensory reconstruction» will help to implement of self-regulation of emotional states in the process of preparation for public performance and during it, and to relieve nervous and mental stress and master the optimal concert state, it is recommended to use methods of autogenic and meditative immersion.

Role ambiguity and its relationship to psychological pressures among school counselors in the cities of Mecca and Jeddah: غموض الدور وعلاقته بالضغوط النفسية لدى المرشدين الطلابيين بمدينتي مكة المكرمة وجدة

The current study aimed to identify the role ambiguity and its relation to the psychological pressures among school counselors in the cities of Makkah and Jeddah. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, the descriptive method was used. The sample was chosen randomly among the school counselors in Makkah and Jeddah (100 school counselors). The study used two measures to obtain the results (The preparation of the ambiguity of the role (preparation of Jumaili and Bijari, 2008) and the measure of chronic psychological stress (the preparation of Schultz and Baker and the translation by Kalioubi and Tangor, 2014), the results of the search found that: -There is a statistically significant relationship between the role ambiguity and psychological pressure in the research sample -There were no statistically significant differences between the school counselors on the role ambiguity due to the specialization -There were statistically significant differences between the school counselors on the role ambiguity according to the experience The differences were for the benefit of the less experience. -There were statistically significant differences between the specialized and non-specialist school counselors in the level of psychological pressure. The differences were for the benefit of the non-specialist study sample -There are statistically significant differences in the level of psychological pressure according to the experience of the school counselors and The differences were for the benefit of the less experience.

Parents’ Perception regarding Their Participation in the Care of Hospitalised Children at a Tertiary Government Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi

Parental participation is one of the cornerstones of paediatric practice. Evidence from the literature has shown that effective parental participation depends on parents’ preparedness, adequate communication between parents and nurses, and the negotiation process. However, little is known about the perception of these parents regarding their participation in the care of their hospitalised children. The aim of the study was to explore the perceptions of parents regarding their participation in the care of their children who were hospitalised at a government hospital in Malawi. A descriptive qualitative study was carried out using a semi-structured interview guide to collect data from 20 parents in the paediatric department. Thematic analysis was done guided by Colaizzi’s method. Three main themes emerged from the data and these were lack of role negotiation by healthcare workers, inadequate role preparation for parents, and parents’ perceptions of the care they provided to their hospitalised children. The study findings showed that parents view their participation in the care of hospitalised children as appropriate, important and satisfying. However, gaps exist in the way they participate in the care of their hospitalised children due to inadequate role negotiation and role preparation for parents and inadequate information from nurses. The researchers recommend that management should develop protocols and guidelines for the implementation of parental participation in the care of hospitalised children to promote best practices and quality children’s care.