Publications by authors named "Outi Kanste"
Aim: To identify and integrate the best evidence on nurses' perceptions of organisational attractiveness and related factors in health care.
Design: A mixed methods systematic review.
Methods: The review followed the Joanna Briggs Institute Mixed Methods Systematic Review methodology and a convergent segregated approach which involved separate qualitative and quantitative syntheses followed by integration in a narrative form.
Background: Widespread challenges to mental well-being among nurses and healthcare professionals threaten the productivity and quality of healthcare. Digital solutions may prove to effectively support nurses' and healthcare professionals' mental well-being.
Aim: To synthesise evidence regarding the effectiveness of digital solutions in improving nurses' and healthcare professionals' mental well-being.
Aim: To describe health and social care managers' self-assessed competence in knowledge management and the factors associated with management competence.
Background: It has been shown that the performance of an organization is as good as the competence of its managers, so health and social care managers' competence in knowledge management should be assessed to improve organizational performance.
Desgin: A descriptive cross-sectional design.
Article Synopsis
- - The study investigated how long-term and short-term frequent attendees perceive patient-centered care in Finland’s primary healthcare system, focusing on differences in their experiences.
- - Researchers surveyed 495 frequent attenders and analyzed the data using various statistical methods to assess their perceptions of care factors like coordination, emotional support, and access to information.
- - Findings showed that long-term frequent attenders had poorer perceptions of patient-centeredness compared to short-term attenders, suggesting a need to reconsider how healthcare services address their unique needs.
Aim: To describe the crisis management competencies needed in a hospital setting during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of nurse leaders.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic generated many challenges for nurse leaders in hospitals, and management competencies are highlighted. However, there is little evidence available about nurse leaders' perceptions of the crisis management competencies needed in such situations.
Background: Evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) enables consistent and effective healthcare that prioritises patient safety. The competencies of advanced practice nurses (APNs) are essential for implementing EBHC because their professional duties include promoting EBHC.
Aim: To identify, critically appraise, and synthesise the best available evidence concerning the EBHC competence of APNs and associated factors.
Purpose: To explore Finnish experts' perceptions of the forms of digital healthcare that are anticipated to be the most utilised in healthcare in the medium-term future (year 2035) and anticipated healthcare workforce impacts those forms will have.
Design/methodology/approach: A total of 17 experts representing relevant interest groups participated in a biphasic online Delphi study. The results for each round were analysed using descriptive statistical methods and inductive content analysis.
Aim: To identify evidence on frontline nurse leaders' competences in evidence-based healthcare (EBHC) and the instruments measuring these competences.
Design: A scoping review.
Data Sources: The search was conducted in June 2021 and complemented in June 2022.
Aim: To describe health and social care managers' perceptions of the factors affecting the competence of managers in knowledge management.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study.
Methods: A semi-structured interview was conducted with 15 managers from three public health and social care organizations in Finland.
Aim: The aim was to explore implementation leadership of the Resident Assessment Instrument in healthcare services for older people from the perspective of specialists.
Design: A qualitative descriptive design was used.
Methods: Thematic interviews with 21 specialists were conducted between April 2022 and June 2022 in eight health and social, one educational and one research organization in Finland.
Aim: To describe managers' and professionals' views on the management of digital competence sharing in health care.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study.
Methods: Managers (n = 22) and professionals (n = 12) from two public primary, one public special and one private health care organization in Finland participated in semi-structured individual interviews between February and May 2022.
Health-care leaders' and professionals' experiences and perceptions of compassionate leadership: A mixed-methods systematic review.
Leadersh Health Serv (Bradf Engl)
October 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify and synthesise the best evidence on health-care leaders' and professionals' experiences and perceptions of compassionate leadership.
Design/methodology/approach: A mixed-methods systematic review was conducted in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for mixed-methods systematic reviews using a convergent integrated approach. A systematic search was done in January 2023 in PubMed, CINAHL, Scopus, Medic and MedNar databases.
Nurse leaders' perceptions of future leadership in hospital settings in the post-pandemic era: a qualitative descriptive study.
Leadersh Health Serv (Bradf Engl)
September 2023
Purpose: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has challenged leadership in hospitals worldwide. The experiences of leadership during the pandemic changed leadership significantly. This study aims to describe nurse leaders' perceptions of what future leadership in hospital settings in the post-pandemic era needs to be like.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To explore registered nurses' cultural orientation competence profiles for providing culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) nurses with orientation in the hospital setting, and to identify which factors are associated with cultural orientation competence profiles.
Design: A descriptive, explorative cross-sectional study.
Methods: Data were collected from December 2020 to January 2021 using the Preceptors' Orientation Competence Instrument (POCI) and Preceptors' Cultural Orientation Competence Instrument (POCCI).
Background: The importance of work engagement has been emphasised due to the increasing demand for health- and social care and the shortage of skilled labour. Improving organisational and managerial factors is important when enhancing professionals' work engagement. The association between management and work engagement has only been established in previous studies at a general level, but the association between appreciative management and work engagement has not received equivalent research interest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To describe nurse leaders' experiences of how culturally and linguistically diverse registered nurses integrate into healthcare settings.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study design.
Participants: A total of 13 nurse leaders were recruited from four primary and specialized healthcare organizations in Finland.
Aim: Work dissatisfaction, burnout and workforce shortage are major problems in healthcare globally, all of which are associated with QWL. Previous studies have found that the QWL of healthcare professionals is moderate or low. The aim was to describe the quality of working life (QWL) of employees working in public healthcare and describe the association between QWL and background variables.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim(s): To describe nurse leaders' perceptions of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) nurses' competence-based management.
Design: A descriptive qualitative study of the competence-based management of CALD nurses, from the perspectives of nurse leaders in three primary and specialised medical care organisations. This study followed the COREQ guidelines.
Purpose: This paper aims to synthesize health-care leaders' experiences of the competencies required for crisis management.
Design/methodology/approach: The systematic review followed the joanna briggs institute (JBI) guidance for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence. The search strategy included free text words and medical subject headings and peer-reviewed qualitative studies published in English, Finnish and Swedish and was not limited by year or country of publication.
Background: Patient-centred care (PCC) has been proposed as an appropriate approach for addressing current shifts in healthcare needs. Although the importance of PCC is generally recognised, PCC is poorly understood by patients in the hospital settings.
Objectives: To identify patients' experiences of PCC in hospital settings.
Aim: To describe hospital nurse leaders' experiences with digital technologies.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study.
Methods: Semi-structured focus group interviews in one university-affiliated hospital in Finland.
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe primary health-care managers' perceptions of management competencies at different management levels in digital health services using the management competency assessment program as a framework.
Design/methodology/approach: A secondary analysis study involving 21 semi-structured individual interviews was conducted among Finnish primary health-care managers at different management levels (frontline, middle and senior). The deductive framework method was used to analyze the data.
Aim: To describe nurse leaders' and digital service developers' perceptions of the future role of artificial intelligence (AI) in specialized medical care.
Background: Use of AI has rapidly increased in health care. However, nurse leaders' and developers' perceptions of AI and its future in specialized medical care remain under-researched.
Aim: To define and clarify the concept of leadership in the context of digital health services using Walker's and Avant's concept analysis model.
Background: Conceptualizing leadership in the context of digital health services is needed to deliver higher quality services and advance research.
Method: Searches were conducted of MEDLINE (Ovid), Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCO) and ProQuest (ABI/INFORM).
Aim: This work aims to describe competence management in telemedicine from the perspective of health and social care frontline leaders.
Background: The increasing use of services in health and social care is a challenging aspect of modern telemedicine; it requires staff to develop relevant professional competence and good telemedicine practices.
Methods: The study was conducted using thematic interviews of frontline leaders from primary health care, specialized medical care and social care (n = 10) in the spring of 2021.