Introduction:

To guarantee 24 hours of care in hospital institutions, the existence of nursing teams is essential whose activity is carried out at night. There are organizational factors that provoke, among night teams, the perception of fewer opportunities for professional development and less institutional attention. This can have an impact on the quality of care and even on the health of professionals. Leader nurses are responsible for creating and maintaining a positively influencing work environment.

Objective:

To evaluate a nursing management project through the impact on the perception about the work environment on the night shift.

Methods:

Pre-post quasi-experimental study carried out with intervention on the population. From a population of night-shift nurses (n=268), we obtained a sample of 268. The instrument “Practice Environment Scale of the Nursing Work Index” was used, which allows evaluating and comparing factors from the nursing practice setting. Univariate statistics of central tendency and dispersion were determined, as well as contrast statistics with significance p<0.05.

Results:

In 41.94% of the questions, significant differences were obtained, highlighting factor 3 (nurses’ skill, leadership and support by their heads). The global mean value obtained in the PRE test was 2.37 (95% CI, 2.22-2.52) and the global mean for the POST value was 2.49 (95% CI, 2.34-2.95), with p=0.0254.

Conclusions:

A nursing management project’s evaluation through the impact on the perception about the work environment in the night shift shows improvements with significant differences.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in Spanish     · Spanish ( pdf )