Does Structural Empowerment of Nurse Leaders Moderate the Relationship Between Destructive Leadership and Nursing Outcomes?-A Cross-Sectional Study.

Aim: To describe how nursing staff assess their superiors' destructive leadership and nurse leaders' structural empowerment. A further aim is to examine the associations between destructive leadership and staff outcomes and how nurse leaders' structural empowerment moderates these associations.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

The social inclusion of care leavers during their transitioning to independent life from aftercare services - A mixed method, retrospective document analysis.

Aim: The aim of this study is to describe the social inclusion of care leavers and factors related to it.

Design And Methods: A mixed method retrospective document analysis. The data were collected from three electronic registers of Finnish care leavers (N = 698).

Bereaved Individuals Attempts to Explain Their Unexplainable Experiences Related to the Death of Their Loved one Through Attribution Thinking.

Continuing bond manifesting as unexplainable experiences reflects bereaved´s attempts to restore connection with the deceased. As an experience unaligned with a person's overall schemas of meaning unexplainable experiences are a source of anxiety that individuals aim to alleviate by attribution thinking. This study describes how bereaved aim to explain unexplainable experiences related to the death of their loved ones.

Measuring trust in healthcare with instruments developed in different disciplines - A scoping review.

Background: Trust is a key character at organizational level. Understanding the level of trust with timely relevant instrument is a significant process to capture the level of trust beyond organizational changes in healthcare.

Objectives: To gather, assess, and synthesize the items of instruments evaluating trust in healthcare organizations.

Mental well-being, work engagement, and work-related and personal resources among nurse managers: A structural equation model.

Background: Nurse managers are central to guaranteeing quality healthcare outcomes. However, their position is very demanding and special attention should be paid to their mental well-being. Good mental well-being at work is associated with overall occupational well-being, increasing nurse managers' intention to stay in the profession and their commitment to their organization.

Structural and Psychological Empowerment of Learners Enrolled in Continuing Nursing Leadership Education in Finland: A Quasi-Experimental Longitudinal Study.

Background: This study was conducted to assess structural and psychological empowerment among learners enrolled in a continuing leadership education program. Although the number of nurse leadership development interventions has increased, there is little evidence on how they influence leaders' empowerment.

Method: A longitudinal study was employed, with learners ( = 85) enrolled in a continuing leadership education program as the participants.

Relationships between nursing leadership and organizational, staff and patient outcomes: A systematic review of reviews.

Aim: To assess and describe reviews of nursing leadership styles associated with organizational, staff and patient outcomes.

Design: A systematic review of reviews.

Methods: Reviews describing a search strategy and quality assessment.

The multifaceted nature of risk behaviour among adolescents-A document analysis of patient and aftercare service providers' records.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the forms and the prevalence of risk behaviour among adolescents in aftercare services, as well as identify the associated factors and use of services by adolescents.

Background: Adolescents in aftercare services represent a vulnerable group that struggles with several aspects of life. The challenges they face are known to accumulate in certain individuals, and the problems that are relevant for this group tend to have an intergenerational nature.

Nurse leaders' experiences of remote leadership in health care.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe nurse leaders' experiences of remote leadership in health care sector.

Design/methodology/approach: Semistructured interviews were conducted among nurse leaders ( = 12) between January and March 2022. All of the interviewees had experiences of remote leadership and worked as immediate - ( = 5) or middle-level ( = 7) leaders in health care organizations across four provinces in Finland.

Humane and Comprehensive Management of Challenging Behaviour in Health and Social Care: Cross-Sectional Study Testing Newly Developed Instrument.

Background: Management of challenging behaviour causes victimization and violates the human rights of service users in psychiatric and long-term settings for people having mental health issues and learning disabilities. The purpose of the research was to develop and test an instrument for measuring humane behaviour management (HCMCB). The research was guided by the following questions: (1) What is the structure and content of the Human and Comprehensive management of Challenging Behaviour (HCMCB) instrument, (2) What are the psychometric properties of the HCMCB instrument, and (3) How do Finnish health and social care professionals evaluate their humane and comprehensive management of challenging behaviour?

Methods: A cross-sectional study design and STROBE checklist were applied.

Urgent hospital transfers - The experiences and required skills of paramedics.

Introduction: Global changes in the health and social care sector have centralized the treatment of emergency patients, leading to an increase of urgent hospital transfers. The aim of this study is to describe paramedics' experiences gained while working in prehospital emergency care, regarding urgent hospital transfers and the skills that performing urgent hospital transfers requires.

Methods: Twenty paramedics with experience in urgent hospital transfers participated in this qualitative study.

Nurse leaders' work-related well-being-Relationships to a superior's transformational leadership style and structural empowerment.

Aims: To describe how nurse leaders' work-related well-being is related to a superior's transformational leadership style and structural empowerment.

Background: The demanding role of nurse leader means that these professionals experience emotional exhaustion and challenges with work-life balance. They can also be influenced by the leadership style of their own superiors.

Structural and psychological empowerment of students obtaining continuing leadership education in Finland-a national survey.

Background: In nursing, empowerment may be deemed one's potential to gain power, achieve goals and promote one's skills to advance positive changes in the working environment, or decentralization of authority. Empowerment is associated with nurses' and nurse leaders' satisfaction, performance and organizational commitment, as well as burnout, emotional exhaustion and intentions to leave the profession. Research on nurse empowerment in relation to continuing education is sparse.

A comprehensive evaluation of factors affecting nurse leaders' work-related well-being.

Purpose: This study aims to describe nurse leaders' experiences of work-related well-being and its association with background variables, working conditions, work engagement, sense of coherence and burnout.

Design/methodology/approach: An electronic survey design was used. Data was collected between December 2015 and May 2016 with an instrument that included demographic questions and four internationally validated scales: the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale, QPS Nordic 34+, the shortened Sense of Coherence scale and the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

Consequences of Unexplained Experiences in the Context of Bereavement - Qualitative Analysis.

Unexplained experiences are common among bereaved people and are a natural part of grieving, but their consequences may affect their coping with grief. However, professionals lack awareness of these unexplained experiences, which may lead to an unnecessary pathologising of the experiences and a lack of opportunity for the bereaved to process their experiences in a safe environment. The study involved an inductive content analysis of 408 narratives of the consequences of unexplained experiences shared by 181 bereaved individuals.

Towards remote leadership in health care: Lessons learned from an integrative review.

Aim: To gather and synthesize current empirical evidence on remote leadership and to provide knowledge that can be used to develop successful remote leadership in health care.

Design: A integrative literature review with an integrated mixed methods design.

Data Sources: The literature search was carried out between February and March 2019 in the CINAHL, Medline (Ovid), PsycInfo, Scopus, SocIndex, Web of Science and Business Source Elite (EBSCO) databases.

Finnish nurses' attitudes towards their role in the euthanasia process.

Background: Nurses' voices remain unheard in most debates about euthanasia, although their crucial role in the euthanasia process is widely acknowledged. Moreover, in Canadian euthanasia law, nurses have a more active role, which further highlights the need for knowledge about nurses' attitudes towards their role in the euthanasia process.

Research Questions: What are Finnish nurses' attitudes towards their potential role in the euthanasia process? Which characteristics are associated with those attitudes?

Research Design: Cross-sectional web-based survey.

The Traditional Model Does Not Explain Attitudes Toward Euthanasia: A Web-Based Survey of the General Public in Finland.

The debate about euthanasia is ongoing in several countries including Finland. However, there is a lack of information on current attitudes toward euthanasia among general Finnish public. The traditional model for predicting individuals' attitudes to euthanasia is based on their age, gender, educational level, and religiosity.

Attitudes of Nurses and the General Public Towards Euthanasia on Individuals with Dementia and Cognitive Impairment.

Objectives: Despite the increasing prevalence of dementia, little is known about individuals' attitudes towards euthanasia on patients with dementia or cognitive impairment.

Methods: Nurses (n = 1003) and representatives of the general public (n = 2796), recruited via social media and the Finnish Nurses Association, completed an electronic questionnaire in 2014.

Results: Euthanasia due to severe dementia was approved by 54.

Nurses' attitudes towards euthanasia in conflict with professional ethical guidelines.

Background: Despite the significant role of nurses in end-of-life care, their attitudes towards euthanasia are under-represented both in the current literature and the controversial debate that is ongoing in several countries.

Research Questions: What are the attitudes towards euthanasia among Finnish nurses? Which characteristics are associated with those attitudes?

Research Design: Cross-sectional web-based survey. Participants and research context: A total of 1003 nurses recruited via the members' bulletin of the Finnish Nurses Association and social media.