Hospital nurse leaders' experiences with digital technologies: A qualitative descriptive study.
focus groups
information technology
leadership
qualitative research
Journal
Journal of advanced nursing
ISSN: 1365-2648
Titre abrégé: J Adv Nurs
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7609811
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2023
Jan 2023
Historique:
revised:
14
09
2022
received:
20
05
2022
accepted:
12
10
2022
pubmed:
28
10
2022
medline:
17
12
2022
entrez:
27
10
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
To describe hospital nurse leaders' experiences with digital technologies. A qualitative descriptive study. Semi-structured focus group interviews in one university-affiliated hospital in Finland. Data were collected from October to November 2021 and analysed using content analysis an e-leadership framework. A total of 20 frontline nurse leaders and middle-managers participated. Leaders had different kinds of experiences that concerned their traits, cognition, affect and behaviour with digital technologies. Leaders experienced that they needed to be open-minded towards digitalization, which sometimes eased their work by making it more efficient. Occasionally, they also got frustrated with digitalization, which caused them stress. Leading digital technologies required collaboration with several different stakeholders, and leaders were especially responsible for ensuring nurses' digital competence. Also, leaders own digital capability was highlighted, although some leaders experienced that their digital capability was low. The e-leadership framework is useful for describing the conduct of leadership roles in the context of digital services. Digitalization has transformed leadership, yet nurse leaders' education and training do not seem to have been sufficiently modified to these rapid changes. In addition, more attention should be given to how nurse leaders can be distressed by digitalization. This study provides insight into leadership in the context of digitalized specialized medical care based on nurse leaders' direct statements. Furthermore, the results highlight nurse leaders' educational needs concerning digitalization. Adequately educating nurse leaders to become e-leaders is crucial to successful digitalization in the nursing domain. The study focused on nurse leaders' experiences.
Identifiants
pubmed: 36300725
doi: 10.1111/jan.15481
pmc: PMC10092210
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
297-308Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Advanced Nursing published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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