Transforming the nursing profession in Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Health-care policies and regulations, both nationally and globally, can result in several challenges to achieving 'the Gold Standard' in nursing practice. These challenges may not be possible to resolve within an organisational level. Collaborative effort and transformational changes are needed to drive the nursing profession toward the best outcomes for our patients and nurses.

Leadership style and organisational commitment among nursing staff in Saudi Arabia

“…Recent work (Alotaibi, Paliadelis, & Valenzuela, 2016) from Saudi Arabia indicates the aspects of staff development that nursing managers could facilitate and these include some resource intensive aspects such as educational opportunities and workload reduction but also cultural aspects -which should be amenable good leadership -such as perceived favouritism and the supportive role of religion in Saudi culture. In addition, the SA Ministry of Health hospitals could refer to those few hospitals in the Kingdom which have Magnet ® hospital status where nurse job satisfaction is reported as being high and nurse turnover rates are low (Alghamdi & Urden, 2016).…”

Nursing management matters for registered nurses with a PhD working in clinical practice

“…Albeit academic progress has been made, nursing research is a relatively young scientific discipline in many countries, including Sweden (Alghamdi & Urden, ; Sun & Larson, ). Approximately 40 years ago, the first Swedish RN defended a PhD thesis (Rinell Hermansson, ), and today, of approximately 140,000 RNs in Sweden, there are about 1,700 with a PhD, i.e., roughly 1% of the RNs (Swedish Society of Nursing, ).…”

Factor analysis and Mokken scaling of the Organizational Commitment Questionnaire in nurses

“…Currently, no organizational commitment tools have been developed in the Arabic language that are specifically designed for health organizations. The generation of an Arabic version of the organizational commitment tool could aid Arabic speaking employers to assess and understand better their employees’ perceptions of their organizations with a view to enhancing organizational commitment, increased job satisfaction (Alghamdi & Urden ; Alghamdi et al. ; Alotaibi et al.…”