Understanding Nurses’ Behavior from the Bedside to the Boardroom: Challenges and Solutions

Dear Colleagues,

The downstream effect of nurses’ behavior is significant in terms of its direct influence on patient outcomes, as well as employee mental and physical health. Regardless of the work setting, understanding nurses’ behavior and its positive or negative consequences is necessary in our complex and rapidly changing healthcare environment. In the context of challenges and solutions, enhancing our perspectives on this topic will advance the science while aiming to achieve the goal of continuously improving patient outcomes, as well as employee mental and physical health.

In this Special Issue, we invite original research, quality improvement initiatives, case reports, and literature reviews (i.e., systematic, scoping, integrative) exploring the psychology of nurses’ behavior in all settings from the bedside to the boardroom.

Topics of interest can include, but are not limited to: incivility, burnout, compassion fatigue, resiliency, stress, work behaviors, caring behaviors, engagement, listening, assertiveness, coping, professionalism, leadership, and innovative behaviors.

Dr. Lisa Boss
Dr. Linda Cole
Guest Editors

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