[Emotional Leadership: a survey on the emotional skills expressed by nursing management].

Introduction: The emotional leadership applied to nursing management is a new topic in the Italian nursing literature, but of great interest internationally. There is a close correlation between nursing leaders with a well-developed emotional intelligence and nurses working well-being.

Scope: This study investigates knowledge about the emotional leadership and emotional competence in nursing management.

[Determinants of the choice of part time employment and nurses' satisfaction: a multicentre descriptive study].

Aims: To describe the main determinants for the choice of part time employment in Italian nurses and its' impact on work satisfaction.

Methods: The main factors were identified with a focus-group. A questionnaire with 26 items for the choice of part time and 24 for work satisfaction was then devised and administered to part time nurses (503) of 5 North Italian hospitals.