Nursing Management in Clinical Settings

Dear Colleagues,

In recent decades, healthcare organizations have undergone significant transformations, driven by demographic changes, new technologies, and rapid advances in knowledge. These innovations improve the services provided and encourage the development of professional competencies, allowing institutions to meet current demands while ensuring that they remain at the forefront of effective healthcare solutions.

Nursing management plays a fundamental role in the development of healthcare organizations. It involves the planning, coordination, and supervision of nursing activities, with a focus on providing humane, evidence-based care aligned with institutional guidelines. Effective nursing management must ensure the implementation of practices that harmonize the organization’s objectives with the needs of the patients who depend on its services. By increasing operational efficiency, nursing management ensures that patients receive quality care.

Nurses, in managing clinical environments, are required to maintain the quality of care, ensuring patient safety and the efficiency of processes within organizations. They must also create a supportive environment and learning opportunities for their employees. In this way, a nurse acts as a leader, manager, educator, and coordinator within a multidisciplinary team. To this end, specific competences are required, such as leadership, communication, decision making, people management, and financial and material resources. In addition, socio-emotional competencies, such as emotional intelligence and teamwork, are essential for successful nursing management.

For this Special Issue, we welcome the submission of scientific articles, experience reports, and scoping and systematic reviews on nursing management practices, addressing the challenges, strategies, and innovations aimed at improving the quality of care, patient safety, leadership, staffing, use of technologies for care management, and evidence-based management practices; methodological and pedagogical approaches for training professional competencies; and validation of instruments for assessing health competencies.

Dr. Silvia Helena Henriques
Prof. Dr. Laura Leal
Guest Editors

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• nurses
• nursing care
• nursing management
• practice environment
• professional competence
• leadership
• material resource management
• financial management
• personnel management
• safety management