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Leadership Strategies To Improve Nurse Retention, Floyd Jordan Colwell
Leadership Strategies To Improve Nurse Retention, Floyd Jordan Colwell
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The nursing shortage and high turnover rates are a problem in the United States. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore leadership strategies that hospital senior nurse managers in the Rocky Mountain states use to improve nurse retention. Participants were 6 hospital senior nurse managers including 3 chief nursing officers, 1 assistant chief nursing officer, and 2 directors who had demonstrated effective leadership strategies in retention of nurses. The leadership-motivated excellence theory was the conceptual framework. Semistructured interviews with open-ended interview questions were used to collect data; organization websites and documents were used to help corroborate evidence …
Nurse Executives' Lived Experience Of Incorporating Caring Leadership, Rachel Elizabeth Stepp
Nurse Executives' Lived Experience Of Incorporating Caring Leadership, Rachel Elizabeth Stepp
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The link between compassion and caring at all levels of nursing practice and the enhancement of the patient experience is well-documented. However, the techniques nurse executives use to incorporate caring into their daily practice while coping with competing organizational priorities is poorly understood. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study, guided by Watson's theory of human caring, was to examine detailed accounts of the experiences of nurse executives incorporating compassion and caring into their daily practice, including techniques they use to build and sustain compassion and caring while balancing competing priorities. A purposive sample of 10 nurse executives participated in …