Question

Requirement : Below are one options of management problem brought to you by Executives of mid-size companies in Atlantic Canada. Design an approach to address this scenarios include details on: Literature review methodology (if necessary), ethical considerations (if any), Problem statement (if necessary), Experimental Design (if necessary), Sampling Strategy(if necessary), Suggestions for analytical techniques (if necessary), Measurement method (if necessary), and any other information you deem is important to resolve the scenario using an evidence based management framework.

Anna is the Minister for Health in the Kingdom of Arendelle and is concerned about low job satisfaction and high burnout rates among Arendelles nurses. She is particularly concerned that if more nursing staff leave the profession because they are dissatisfied then the quality and availability of health care in Arendelle will decrease. To address this problem, she has tasked you with improving job satisfaction and employee engagement of nurses in the kingdom.

Conversations with her senior managers have suggested that in the hospitals with the highest job satisfaction among nurse’s management has high emotional intelligence, nurses have good work-life balance and nurses are active participants in the goal setting process.

She has asked you to look into these factors with an evidence-based management framework in order to inform the development of better management practices for nursing staff in the kingdom.

Answer 1

Literature review:

Nursing as a Profession:

Nursing is a health care specialist with its own name. The role and dedication of nursing staff to health care programs at the hospital and in the community must be given proper consideration. In particular, sociological (and other) health research studies concentrated on the medical profession's growth and contemporary position and believed that nursing and other health research 'worked in' with this context study Gones, 1994) Medical sociologists researched what doctors did and hardly considered nurses. (Oakely, 1986) Chapman notes that nurses have historically been treated as 'handmaids' by the medical profession.

While doctors want a knowledgeable analyst and a nurse capable of efficiently exercising complicated technical skills, they do not want a partner in the true sense of the word.

Definition of Nursing:

Diers (1994) said the debate on describing nursing is far from over, despite substantial efforts.

For Diers (1994:11) "Nursing is two aspects: the treatment of the ill, or the currently ill, and the treatment of the entire world in which nursing takes place"

The Social Position of Nursing:

The three sources listed above have shaped the semantic debate, including the efforts to assign nursing philosophy of its own; the development of nursing positions in line with social and technical developments and the development of specialized nursing practice suggest the need to consider nursing as a professional discipline with all its complexities. Diers (1994) suggested a path when she said that what nursing is, through study and logical thought alone, could not be solved.
It can be overcome if at all by recognizing that for all kinds of reasons nursing changes very quickly and that those adjustments redefine the sector.

PROBLEM STATEMENT:

Evaluation of the degree and factors affecting work satisfaction amongst nurses at selected hospitals.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

• To assess the level of work satisfaction amongst nurses in specified hospitals.
• To evaluate the factors that impact job satisfaction among nurses employed in selected hospitals.
• To consider a correlation between the results of the research and chosen survey demographic variables.

RESEARCH QUESTION:

• What is the degree of workplace satisfaction among nurses?
• What factors affect job satisfaction among nurses?