Journal of Health Organization and Management: Volume 37 Issue 1

Exploring the impact of surface acting on nurse leaders during COVID

Carlene Joy Boucher

Coronavirus (COVID) has had a massive impact on the health systems of many nations including Australia. Nurse leaders have, as part of their leadership and management roles, had…

Diffusion of person-centred care within 27 European countries – interviews with managers, officials, and researchers at the micro, meso, and macro levels

Kristina Rosengren, Sandra C. Buttigieg, Bárbara Badanta, Eric Carlstrom

This study aimed to describe facilitators and barriers in terms of regulation and financing of healthcare due to the implementation and use of person-centred care (PCC).

“Local cooperation has been the cornerstone”: facilitators and barriers to resilience in a decentralized health system during COVID-19 in Finland

Laura Kihlström, Moona Huhtakangas, Soila Karreinen, Marjaana Viita-aho, Ilmo Keskimäki, Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen

The purpose of this study was to elucidate facilitators and barriers to health system resilience and resilient responses at local and regional levels during the first year of the…

A scoping review of the literature of interventions for enhancing nurses' resilience in acute care settings

Rania Ali Albsoul, James Hughes, Muhammad Ahmed Alshyyab, Gerard Fitzgerald

The aim of this study was to identify and evaluate interventions shown to improve nurse resilience in the acute care settings.

Comparing perspectives on organisational silence: an analysis of the Gosport inquiry

Martin Powell

This paper examines different perspectives on the broad umbrella term of organisational silence. It identifies ten perspectives on organisational silence from the previous…

Evaluating the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire among medical staff in Taiwan

Yung-Tai Tang, Hsin-Hung Wu, Yii-Ching Lee, Chih-Hsuan Huang

The rapid changes that the healthcare services industry is undergoing pose a challenge to obtaining accurate measurements of the delivery of medical services to patients. Current…

Patient presentations to an after-hours general practice, an urgent care clinic and an emergency department on Sundays: a comparative, observational study

John William Adie, Wayne Graham, Ryan O'Donnell, Marianne Wallis

The purpose of this paper is to determine which factors are associated with 6,065 patient presentations with non-life-threatening urgent conditions (NLTUCs) to an after-hours…

Managing an ageing healthcare workforce: a systematic literature review

Mari Kurashvili, Karin Reinhold, Marina Järvis

The aim of this paper is to review research conducted on managing the ageing healthcare workforce and identify gaps for further research.