How Nursing Leadership Affects Staff Nurses’ Job Satisfaction Rhonda Rychlik
How Nursing Leadership Affects Staff Nurses’ Job Satisfaction The constant and rapidly changing health care environment dramatically affects nursing practice today. Health care leaders are faced with the problem of achieving their strategic goals while balancing finances, productivity, quality outcomes and employee and patient satisfaction. The health care environment is competitive and chaotic which means constant organizational change to meet the challenges. Today’s changes occur frequently in every organization and to handle and motivate change is one of the leader’s main tasks (Sellgren, Ekvall, & Tomson, 2008, p. 579). The challenges in health care today place pressure on the relati
