Promoting Nursing Organizational Well-Being: The Impact of Work Environment on Nursing-Sensitive Outcomes
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Organizations, Systems, and Providers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 27 August 2026 | Viewed by 956
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to provide readers with opportunities to appreciate the relationship between nursing organizational well-being, work environment, and their influence on nursing-sensitive outcomes. With the increasing complexity of healthcare systems and patients' demands, the quality of the nurses' work environment has assumed significant importance in the well-being of staff as well as in patient outcomes. Nurses bear a unique responsibility to promote and develop organizational approaches that nurture resilience, safety, and quality care.
The goal of this Special Issue is to gather original qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research and reviews, enriching our understanding of how supportive work environments enhance nurses' professional well-being and nursing-sensitive outcomes. We aim to highlight evidence-informed interventions, organizational models, and the influences of mediation or moderation variables, as well as interdisciplinary approaches, to promote healthy work environments and high-quality nursing care.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Nursing-led intervention to improve organizational well-being and workplace culture;
- The impact of staffing, skill mix, and leadership on nursing-sensitive outcomes;
- Organization of care and strategies to govern nurse retention, intention to leave, and improve job satisfaction;
- Measurement and evaluation of organizational well-being and its relationship with quality of care;
- Development and validation of an instrument to evaluate nursing-organizational well-being, work environments, and nursing-sensitive outcomes;
- Digital health, innovation, and workplace technologies supporting nurses' work environments;
- Education, policy, and leadership approaches to strengthen organizational well-being in nursing.
We look forward to your valuable contributions to this important field.
Dr. Jacopo Fiorini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- work environments
- nurses
- workplace safety
- leadership
- organizational well-being
- retention
- job satisfaction
- nursing-sensitive outcomes
- quality of care
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