A comparison of work characteristics and health status between Korean and US hospital nurses.

Aim: A rigorous examination of the occupational features across cultures helps draw policy recommendations for nurses' quality care practices and good health. This study aimed to explore the differences in work characteristics and health status between Korean and US hospital nurses.

Design: For this comparative secondary data analysis study, we constructed a dataset with 304 pairs of nurses from Korea and the United States, matched by age and gender.

Interpersonal competence as a moderator in the relation between occupational stress and organizational adaptation among nurses: A cross-sectional study.

Purpose: This study examined the relationship between occupational stress and organizational adaptation among nurses and analyzed the moderating effects of interpersonal competence on this association.

Background: In the rapidly changing medical industry, nurses must adapt to their healthcare organizations and competently provide care. Higher levels of stress in nurses, which have been reported recently, can decrease their organizational adaption levels.

Individual-level positive psychological capital that enhances managers' transformational leadership effectiveness on nurse career success.

Aims: This study investigated the impact of nurse managers' transformational leadership on the subjective career success of staff nurses, particularly through exploring potential variations in this relationship based on nurses' positive psychological capital.

Background: Amid a challenging nursing environment, nurses' perceptions of career success affect their individual psychological satisfaction and improve work performance. Human resource strategies often include factors for workers' subjective career success, e.

Psychometric validation of the Korean versions of the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale and Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale.

Purpose: Strategies for reducing vaccine hesitancy and negative attitudes toward vaccination and measures to accurately assess them have been developed worldwide. The Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (VHS) and Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale (VAX) are reliable and valid tools. This study evaluates the validity and reliability of the Korean versions of the Vaccine Hesitancy Scale (K-VHS) and Vaccination Attitudes Examination Scale (K-VAX).

Translations and psychometric validation of the Korean version of the Nursing Teamwork Survey.

Enhancing nursing teamwork benefits both patients and nurses. The Nursing Teamwork Survey is a reliable, valid tool to evaluate nursing teamwork. This study was conducted to translate and psychometrically validate the Nursing Teamwork Survey for nurses in Korea.

Nurses' attitudes toward antimicrobial stewardship in South Korea.

Background: Global concerns about antimicrobial resistance have accelerated the development of antimicrobial stewardship programmes (ASPs) to improve the safety and quality of clinical care. Nurses have important roles in antimicrobial stewardship (AS).

Aim: To assess Korean nurses' attitudes toward AS and compare differences in nurses' attitudes toward antimicrobial use and resistance by organizational factors.

Smartphone-based home workout program for shift-work nurses working during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This study aimed to develop a smartphone-based home workout program for shift-work nurses to increase their levels of exercise and examine its effects on health (sleep disturbance, fatigue, musculoskeletal problems, and resilience) and nursing performance. For this quasiexperimental study with a nonequivalent control group, 54 shift-work nurses were recruited from two general wards at a hospital in Korea and assigned to the intervention and control groups. Nurses in the intervention group were encouraged to exercise regularly using the home workout application for 18 weeks.

Unit work environment, psychological empowerment and support for patient activation among nurses.

Aims: To investigate the relationship between the unit work environment and psychological empowerment of nurses and their perceptions of patient activation.

Background: Nurses' support for active patient roles in the care process is critical for better patient outcomes. The factors influencing nurses' support for patient activation should be thoroughly investigated.

Three-factor structure of the eHealth Literacy Scale and its relationship with nurses' health-promoting behaviours and performance quality.

Aims: To examine the factorial validity of the eHealth Literacy Scale among hospital nurses and to investigate the associations of its components with health-promoting behaviours and nursing performance quality.

Design: This cross-sectional study used survey data of 484 Korean hospital nurses, which were collected between March-May 2016.

Methods: The three-factor structure was tested using confirmatory factor analyses.

Work Schedule Characteristics, Missed Nursing Care, and Organizational Commitment Among Hospital Nurses in Korea.

Purpose: This study describes Korean nurses' work schedule characteristics and identifies their components to investigate associations of work schedule components with missed nursing care and organizational commitment.

Design: This cross-sectional secondary analysis used survey data of 1,057 nurses in 111 units at six hospitals in South Korea. Data were collected between April 2017 and March 2018.

Sleep diary- and actigraphy-derived sleep parameters of 8-hour fast-rotating shift work nurses: A prospective descriptive study.

Background: Given the harmful effects of night shifts and rotating schedules on nurses' sleep and work performance, shift nurses' sleep patterns have been a research concern. Actigraphy involves acquisition of data using a movement sensor worn continuously on the nondominant wrist, typically for a week or more. Although actigraphy provides objective and accurate sleep data, sleep diaries have been a practical alternative.

Novice nurses' sleep disturbance trajectories within the first 2 years of work and actual turnover: A prospective longitudinal study.

Background: Novice nurses experience radical changes in their sleep-wake cycle and sleep difficulties after exposure to a rotating shift work schedule. The link between workplace hardship and employee turnover may be dependent on factors at the individual level, e.g.

Pre-employment health lifestyle profiles and actual turnover among newly graduated nurses: A descriptive and prospective longitudinal study.

Background: Newly graduated nurses' pre-employment health lifestyles play particularly important roles in their smooth adaptation to and retention in clinical nursing; however, the longitudinal relationship between pre-employment health lifestyles and work outcomes, such as turnover, remains underexamined. To identify the health lifestyle profiles of specific populations of interest, recent studies have employed multifaceted approaches using health behaviors and/or statuses.

Objectives: To identify the pre-employment health lifestyle profiles of newly graduated nurses, and to examine the longitudinal relationships between health lifestyle profiles and actual turnover.

Changes in health behaviours and health status of novice nurses during the first 2 years of work.

Aims: To explore changes in health behaviours and health status of novice nurses during the first 2 years of work.

Background: Novice nurses experience many difficulties in maintaining healthy behaviours while adapting to clinical settings. However, studies about the health of novice nurses have not focused on changes over time.

Shift-work nurses' work environments and health-promoting behaviours in relation to sleep disturbance: A cross-sectional secondary data analysis.

Aims And Objectives: To examine the association of nursing work environments and health-promoting behaviours with shift-work nurses' sleep disturbance.

Background: Shift-work nurses reportedly have sleep problems, which affect their sleep quality and quantity. Given the high risk of developing performance decrements and medication errors in sleep-disturbed nurses, factors related to sleep disturbance among shift-work nurses should be investigated.