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Essential leadership skills for motivating and developing staff

31 August 2011

Nursing Management

Feature

Achieving and sustaining high quality patient care and containing costs are important aspects of a nurse manager’s role, and a successful manager needs to have the...

What motivates patients and carers to participate in dementia studies?

01 November 2013

Nursing Older People

Art & Science

Aim The aim of this study was to explore what motivates people to participate in dementia research. Method Three focus groups, attended by carers and people with...

Prize your praise

01 October 1997

Nursing Management

Prize your praise

It is commonly known that praise is an effective motivator in the workplace. Positive reinforcement not only improves performance, it is also necessary in order to...

Hospital nurses’ working conditions in relation to motivation and patient safety

02 March 2015

Nursing Management

Art & Science

There is a lack of empirical knowledge about nurses’ perceptions of their workplace characteristics and conditions, such as level of autonomy and decision authority,...

Training as treatment

09 February 2010

Nursing Standard

Feature

There is a growing belief that exercise can be beneficial for people with depression. Yet exercise on prescription is often not available

Feelgood factors

19 June 2007

Nursing Standard

General article

As part of our Insight series we asked readers to tell us about their working lives. Many of those who responded are still motivated by a love for the job, but...

Economic change: a barrier to diabetes self-management?

04 October 2011

Primary Health Care

A&S Science

Aim This study explores the expectation that diabetes self-management is adversely affected by individuals’ economic problems. Method A convenience sample of ten...

Dying art

14 November 2007

Nursing Standard

News

Working in a hospice gives nurses the opportunity to make patients’ end of life peaceful, dignified and pain free.