Aim(s): To understand how nurses experience their positioning amidst hospital crises. Background: Nursing leadership literature is predominantly focused on the skills and competencies of nurses and less on the relations in practice with nurses. Nurses are often valued for bedside care but are overlooked …

Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning of nurses. Talk is a relational leadership practice. Using a qualitative‐ interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein members of executive hospital boards (7), nurses (14), physicians (7), and managers …

Some nurses are responding rebelliously to the changing healthcare landscape by challenging the status quo and deviating from suboptimal practices, professional norms, and organizational rules. While some view rebel nurse leadership as challenging traditional structures to improve patient care, others …

Nurse clinician-scientists are increasingly expected to show leadership aimed at transforming healthcare. However, research on nurse clinician-scientists' leadership (integrating researcher and practitioner roles) is scarce and hardly embedded in sociohistorical contexts. This study introduces leadership …

Purpose This study aims to enhance understanding of the collaboration between chairs of nurse councils (CNCs) and members of executive hospital boards (BM) from a relational leadership perspective. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a qualitative and interpretive methodology. The authors study …

Most nurse leadership studies have concentrated on a classical, heroic, and hierarchical view of leadership. However, critical leadership studies have argued the need for more insight into leadership in daily nursing practices. Nurses must align their professional standards and opinions on quality of …

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Een andere kijk op verpleegkundig leiderschap, met meer aandacht voor de omgeving waarin dit plaatsvindt, kan helpen om beter te begrijpen wat leiderschap inhoudt en om het 'doen' hiervan zichtbaar te maken. Al jaren wordt veel gezegd en geschreven over verpleegkundig leiderschap. Toch blijft onduidelijkheid …

Leiderschap van verpleegkundigen is cruciaal om de kwaliteit van zorg te bewaken en verbeteren. Daarnaast laat onderzoek zien dat wanneer verpleegkundigen leiderschap (mogen) tonen, zij meer werkplezier ervaren en minder de intentie hebben om het vak te verlaten. Allemaal belangrijke zaken om te zorgen …

In this article, we reconstruct a Dutch case in which policymakers, experts, and professional organizations proposed to amend a law so as to differentiate between different kinds of nurses and the work they do. In doing so, they specifically sought to support and reposition higher educated nurses. The …