The influence of personal and workplace resources on new graduate nurses' job satisfaction.

Aims: This study examined the influence of new graduate nurses' personal resources (psychological capital) and access to structural resources (empowerment and staffing) on their job satisfaction.

Background: Reports suggest that new graduate nurses are experiencing stressful work environments, low job satisfaction, and high turnover intentions. These nurses are a health human resource that must be retained for the replacement of retiring nurses, and to address impending shortages.

The influence of leadership practices and empowerment on Canadian nurse manager outcomes.

Aim: To examine the influence of senior nurse leadership practices on middle and first-line nurse managers' experiences of empowerment and organizational support and ultimately on their perceptions of patient care quality and turnover intentions.

Background: Empowering leadership has played an important role in staff nurse retention but there is limited research to explain the mechanisms by which leadership influences nurse managers' turnover intentions.

Methods: This study was a secondary analysis of data collected using non-experimental, predictive mailed survey design.