Anu Nurmeksela

ORCID: 0000-0003-0474-0404
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Research Areas
  • Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Healthcare Quality and Management
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Nursing education and management
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Patient Safety and Medication Errors
  • Disaster Response and Management
  • Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Communication in Education and Healthcare
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Workplace Violence and Bullying
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Diabetes Management and Education
  • Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment

University of Eastern Finland
2019-2025

Finland University
2020

Central Finland Health Care District
2017-2019

Abstract Background Nurse managers play a critical role in enhancing nursing and patient outcomes. The work of nurse managers, who can be described as middle-managers at health care organizations, is complex changes on daily basis. Only few studies have clarified how divide their time across various activities. This study aimed to describe the relationships between managers’ activities, nurses’ job satisfaction, medication errors hospital unit level. Methods A cross-sectional correlational...

10.1186/s12913-021-06288-5 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2021-04-01

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged nurses and healthcare systems globally raised major concerns for nurses' wellbeing working conditions. This cross-sectional correlational study design aims to describe resilience, job satisfaction, intentions leave quality of care, explain their relationships during the pandemic.Data were collected from Registered Nurses (N = 437) in Finland through an electronic survey between February 2021 June 2021. questionnaire covered background characteristics...

10.1186/s12913-023-09648-5 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2023-06-14

The prolonged COVID-19 pandemic affected healthcare professionals' work and well-being in numerous ways. Nurse managers, particular, played a crucial complex role maintaining leading services, ensuring the safety of both staff patients, supporting their teams. Gaining deeper understanding nurse managers' experiences factors influencing at is essential for providing effective support future. aim this study to describe during pandemic. A qualitative interview design was used. Semi-structured...

10.1186/s12912-025-03081-1 article EN cc-by-nc-nd BMC Nursing 2025-04-29

Aim To describe nurse managers' views of their work in the future. Background Ongoing reformation health care organisations includes profound changes to practices. Method A qualitative approach was applied elicit managers (n = 133) from eight Finnish specialized medical hospitals through one open-ended question about future November 2019. The acquired data were subjected inductive thematic content analysis. Results Four themes identified responses, indicating that they anticipated: 1) a...

10.1111/jonm.13337 article EN Journal of Nursing Management 2021-04-12

The aim of this study is to describe nurse perceptions leaders' internal crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.

10.1111/jonm.13707 article EN Journal of Nursing Management 2022-06-13

Abstract Background Working in the healthcare sector seems less interesting than other sectors: salary is low relative to demands of labour involved, and working conditions as well management are perceived poor. These factors may have an impact on well-being nurses sector. This study aims explore relationship between precarious employment occupational well-being, addition moderating effect having a calling this among younger older nurses. Methods Cross-sectional survey data were collected...

10.1186/s12913-024-11220-8 article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2024-06-24

Healthcare providers must understand patients' expectations and perceptions of the care they receive to provide high-quality care. The purpose this study is identify analyse different clusters patient satisfaction with quality at Finnish acute hospitals.A cross-sectional design was applied. data were collected in 2017 from three hospitals Revised Humane Caring Scale (RHCS) as a paper questionnaire, including six background questions subscales. k-means clustering method used define data. unit...

10.1186/s12913-023-09625-y article EN cc-by BMC Health Services Research 2023-06-13

To explore and describe nurse managers' experiences of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their leadership work. As frontline leaders in healthcare, work managers was dominated by global recent years. Semistructured interviews were carried out during autumn 2021 at a Finnish university hospital. Twelve participated video call interviews, data analysed inductive content analysis. Four main categories effect on identified: increased requirements; changes content; crisis communication; human...

10.1155/2023/8191426 article EN Journal of Nursing Management 2023-12-20

Nurse-led counseling and systematic follow-up have been shown to reduce cardiovascular risk factor levels. The study aims were investigate if levels could be reduced in patients with coronary artery disease a nurse-led intervention report patients' evaluations of counseling. design was real-life longitudinal intervention. Data collected from November 2017 May 2020. time 1 year. Of the 78 recruited, 74 completed study. most significant findings total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein...

10.1111/nhs.12852 article EN Nursing and Health Sciences 2021-05-15

Abstract Background Nurse managers play a critical role in enhancing nursing and patient outcomes. A nurse manager’s work, which can be described as middle-manager at health care organization, is complex changes from day to day. Only few studies have clarified how divide their time across various work activities. This study aimed describe the relationships between managers’ activities, nurses’ job satisfaction, medication errors hospital unit level. Methods cross-sectional correlational...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-32156/v2 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2020-12-01

To describe how nursing staff assess their superiors' destructive leadership and nurse leaders' structural empowerment. A further aim is to examine the associations between outcomes empowerment moderates these associations.

10.1111/jan.16684 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Advanced Nursing 2024-12-18

This study describes nurse leaders' experiences of nursing leadership in Finland towards Magnet hospital culture. is a qualitative descriptive study. The data from leaders (n = 9) were collected face-to-face or online interviews June and August 2023 analysed using an inductive content analysis approach. Excellent consists possibilities for impact, the determination responsibilities, strong organisation, interpersonal leadership, empowerment nurses' excellence development. In addition,...

10.1111/jan.16662 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal of Advanced Nursing 2024-12-25

Abstract Background Nurse managers play a critical role in enhancing nursing and patient outcomes. managers’ behaviour the clinical environment have been shown to affect nurses’ job satisfaction. In addition, leadership, support, nurse-manager trust all improve safety culture climate reduce medication errors. However, hospital management organisational support influence both manager staff attitudes, which can care quality This study aims describe relationships between nurse work content,...

10.21203/rs.3.rs-32156/v1 preprint EN cc-by Research Square (Research Square) 2020-06-16
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