3. MAGDA E. NASSAR, HALA AHMED ABDOU*, NAGLAA
A. MOHMOUD
Faculty of Nursing, Nursing Administration,
Alexandria, Egypt
4. Dramatic
changes in the healthcare
environment over the last decade.
Nursing
shortages, staff retention, and
turnover the prime concern of the health
care organization.
Healthcare
organizations need to redesign
their traditional management models
5. Management
styles play a vital role in
promoting workplace empowerment,
organizational commitment and job
satisfaction
Retention
of nurses is a recognized issue for
the health organization
6. To
determine the relationship between
management styles and nurses’ retention at
private hospitals.
7. Study
design: a correlational descriptive
research design.
Study
area:
Three private hospitals affiliated to
nongovernmental for profit sector at Alexandria
governorate.
Each hospital has a bed capacity more than 50
beds namely:
El Salama New hospital (8 units),
Alexandria New Medical Center (four units), and
El Shefaa hospital (four units)
8. •
Study population:
All nurses affiliated to work in the selected hospitals
and available at the time of data collection
Sample
size:
n=228
Alexandria New Medical Center n = 79 nurses,
El Salama New hospital n = 113 nurses and
El Shefaa hospital n = 36 nurses.
9. Tool:
Profile of Organizational Characteristics (POC) a
modified version developed by Likert et al., to
measure nurses’ perception of management
styles in their work unit .
Consists of 16 items classified into four parts
called systems; each system represented
different management patterns which are
exploitative/authoritative management style
Benevolent management style,
consultative management style, and
participative management style.
10. The
four management systems have been
compared with one another on the basis of:
leadership processes (three items),
motivation forces (three items),
communication process (four items),
decision making process (two items),
goals setting (two items), and
control process (two items).
11.
A pilot study on 10% of nurses from inpatients
units at the International Cardiac Center (ICC)
not included in the study were selected.
Submitted to a panel of eight experts in the field
of study to be tested for its statement
relevance.
The reliability coefficient of POC has been
previously established with alpha coefficient
0.92 < 0.05.
For the current questionnaire POC, alpha
coefficient was 0.89 < 0.05.
12. Permission
for study was obtained from:
The ethical committee of the Faculty of Nursing
Directors of the studied hospitals to collect
necessary data.
13. Included three phases as follow: Phase I
Obtained a list about numbers and names of all
nurses employed at least 3 months having
diploma or baccalaureate degree from the head
nurses in studied hospitals (units).
Individualized structured interview was
conducted which lasted for interview lasted 30–
45.
14. Phase
II
Returned to the previous studied hospitals after 9
months to collect data from director of nursing
and head nurses about the numbers and names of
nurses who had quit and reasons for leaving their
units.
The reasons for quitting hospitals : obligatory
and non-obligatory reasons.
A record form designed including the number and
the names of nurses who had quit from hospitals,
hospital name, reasons for quitting, and work
duration until quitting.
Nurses’ retention was calculated.
15.
Data :
Data were analyzed using SPSS (with version (v =
11.5 for windows) for tabulation and statistical
analysis
Descriptive and inferential statistics were used.
Level of significance selected for this study was
5% (p < 0.05).
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22. Result
is congruent with Chappell and Prince
who found that non-family obligation is an
important obligatory reasons.
Force MV showed that work-related factors
are instrumental in nurses’ employment
decisions, and must be addressed if retention
is to be improved.
23. The
present study:
Gives strong support towards understanding of
nurses’ perception of management styles and
their retention at Private Hospitals.
Has shown significant difference between
management styles and nurse’ retention.
Highest mean percentage was apparent for
exploitive/authoritative management style.
24. Hospital
leaders should plan and implement
effective strategies to promote nurses’
retention by:
Creating a more supportive professional nursing
practice that allows nurses to practice to their
full opportunities for professional interactions.
Motivating nurses through providing job
enrichment and developing reward systems for
nurses based on their workloads.
25. Can
assess retention strategies between
governmental and private nurses, by further
comparative studies.
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27. Title
Brief, clear and interesting
Total words 10.
Setting not stated.
Dependent and independent variables could not
be identified.
Not in title case
29. Introduction
According to the title of the study
Related relevant literature included
Objectives
of the study
Clearly stated
Variables
not listed.
Population clearly identified.
Research Hypothesis:
Not mentioned
Conceptual
framework not given.
30. Research
Correlation descriptive research design
Sampling
Design
Sampling design not mentioned.
Sample
design:
Size calculation
Only the desired sample size mentioned but
hadn’t talked about how it was calculated!!!!
31. Data
Standardized instrument was used.
Validity and reliability of the tool was done.
Given that data were collected in 3 phases but
only 2 phases were mentioned.
Data
Collection Tools
processing and analysis:
Clearly mentioned and appropriate computer
software was used.
Inclusion
criteria was mentioned.
Ethical consideration was obtained from
concerned committee.
32. Important
results discussed
Tables are well understandable and selfexplanatory.
Descriptive as well as appropriate inferential
statistics were used.
33. Discussion
: Discussion well mentioned and
properly referenced.
Conclusion: Clearly stated
Recommendation and implication clearly
stated.
Limitation of the study not mentioned.
Referencing:
Vancouver referencing style is maintained.
References adequate (35).
Only few of the references were older than 10
years.
34. Well
written and documented.
Abstract adequately summarized.
Well organized, no use of jargons
No irrelevant details.
35. Study
would have been better if it would
have:
Clearly stated the dependent and independent
variable.
Description about the sampling technique and
calculation of sample size.