Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Department of Midwifery, Ur.C., Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
2 Department Of Nursing, Ur.C., Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
3 Department of Nursing, Ur.C., Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
4 Student Research Committee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Background: Nurse managers' employment of supportive strategies can lead to an attractive and secure work environment and increase nurse recruitment. The crucial role that nurses managers play as direct supervisors in preserving the clinical nurses' performance, as well as their focus on solidifying their roles in doing so, are both significant. The purpose was to explore nurse managers’ supportive strategies to Support clinical nurses' practices.
Methods: This research was a qualitative study. Semi-structured interviews with 20 participants from educational hospitals affiliated with the Urmia University of Medical Sciences were used for data collection in2023. Concurrent with data collection, the interviews were recorded, promptly transcribed, and the results were analyzed. The data analysis method used was conventional content analysis. Credibility, transferability, dependability, and conformability were used to evaluate the rigor of this investigation.
Results: Nurse managers' supportive strategies encompass exchangeable assistance for their cooperation, exchangeable involvement of nurses in ward affairs for cooperation, providing a comfortable environment to increase personnel cooperation, caring for nurses’ endeavors in coordinating their work and life programs, changing working positions of nurses, managers’ fair behavior for the prevention of objections, and pacification for conflict removal. These strategies were conceptualized under the category of functional-exchangeable protection as the primary strategy resulting from these actions.
Conclusion: One contingent communication strategy that nurse managers can use to safeguard human resources and keep their jobs stable for nurses is functional-exchangeable protection. This supportive strategy can minimize nurses’ concerns about the problems of the working environment.
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