Journal
JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT
Volume 30, Issue 1, Pages 205-213Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jonm.13473
Keywords
enacted scope of practice; job characteristics; nursing role; organizational performance; work satisfaction
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- Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine
- TD Bank
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The study aims to understand the relationships between nurses' enacted scope of practice, work satisfaction, missed care, and organizational performance indicators. Results indicate suboptimal enacted scope of practice, correlated with lower work satisfaction and negative outcomes. Improving nurses' enacted scope of practice could enhance organizational performance, patient care, and nurses' satisfaction.
Aim: This study aims at better understanding the relationships between nurses' enacted scope of practice, work environment and work satisfaction, missed care, and organizational indicators of performance. Background: The enacted scope of practice model describes the determinants and consequences of the actual enactment of the nursing scope of practice. Method: A correlational design was used to investigate nurses' enacted scope of practice in five Canadian healthcare centres. Results: Suboptimal enacted scope of practice were found in the current sample. Significant positive correlations were found between the total enacted scope of practice score, use of qualification, control over tasks, decisional latitude and psychological demand as well as role ambiguity. Moreover, a higher enacted scope of practice was correlated with lower organizational indicators of short-term absenteeism. Conclusion: Results suggest an insufficient deployment of nurses' enacted scope of practice, likely caused by some job characteristics, leading to lower work satisfaction and negative patients and organizational outcomes. Implications for nursing management: Optimizing nurses' enacted scope of practice would be a significant integrated strategy for improving organizational performance, patient care and nurses' satisfaction and well-being. Nurses and frontline managers must be involved in the decision-making process necessary to improve nurses' enacted scope of practice.
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