About this Research Topic
Consequently, the main goal of this Research Topic is to shed light on nurses' agency, highlighting nurses’ personality traits, values, decision-making processes, and motivation as affecting patients' care. We seek contributions that can inform the development of an overarching agency-sensitive theory that examines how to manage the balance across multiple levels of analysis. We encourage theoretical, empirical and review submissions that adopt quantitative, qualitative or mixed-method studies. Examples of topics include, but are not restricted to, the following:
• Exploring nurse's personality traits, decision-making processes, motivations, and strategies that impact patient's safety and quality of care and/or moderate the workload-performance link.
• Exploring the relative contribution, as well as the trade-off effects, of structural compared with agency explanations of patients' safety and quality of care.
• Addressing theoretical and measurement issues for better understanding the concept of nurses' agency.
• The role of organizational and job characteristics (e.g., leadership, cultures, etc.) in balancing nurse's agency and patients' outcomes.
Keywords: Nursing, Quality of care, Safety, Decision-making process, Missed nursing care, Accountability, agency
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