First-line managers' experiences of and reflections on structural conditions for management practice in hospital settings.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe first-line managers' (FLMs') experiences and reflections on structural conditions for management practice within hospital settings using Kanter's theory of structural empowerment.

Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative deductive approach with a descriptive design was used. Interviews were conducted with 11 FLMs in charge of medical or surgical hospital units spread across Sweden.

Individual and unit level insights from hospital staff ratings on structural empowerment, leadership-management performance, well-being, and quality of care.

Background: Leadership and access to structural empowerment are known to influence the work life experiences of staff and quality of care. Knowledge about relationships between specific factors of structural empowerment, leadership and management, staff well-being and quality of care at both an individual and unit level is scarce.

Aim: To study the relationship between staff-rated access to empowering structures, leadership and management performance, well-being, and quality of care in hospital settings measured at the individual level and aggregated at the unit level.

Chemotherapy-induced Emesis: Experienced Burden in Life, and Significance of Treatment Expectations and Communication in Chemotherapy Care.

Objective: Because antiemetics have become more effective and integrative therapies such as acupuncture are used in combination with antiemetics, people receiving chemotherapy for cancer today might expect less emesis than in the past. It is not previously described if and how people receiving modern antiemetics during chemotherapy experience emesis. The objective of this study was to describe experiences regarding emesis among persons undergoing emetogenic chemotherapy, and how it affects their quality of life, daily life and work.

Staff structural empowerment-Observations of first-line managers and interviews with managers and staff.

Aim: The aim was to study how first-line managers act to make structural empowerment accessible for nursing staff and furthermore to relate these observations to the manager's and their nursing staff's descriptions regarding the staff's access to empowering structures.

Background: Staff access to empowering structures has been linked to positive workplace outcomes. Managers play an important role in providing the conditions for structural empowerment.

Impact of clinical ethics support on daily practice-First-line managers' experiences in the Euro-MCD project.

Aim: To explore first-line managers' experiences of what Moral Case Deliberation has meant for daily practice, to describe perceptions of context influence and responsibility to manage ethically difficult situations.

Background: In order to find measures to evaluate Moral Case Deliberation, the European Moral Case Deliberation Outcome instrument was developed and is now in the stage of revision. For this, there is a need of several perspectives, one of them being the managerial bird-eye perspective.