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Challenges in municipality healthcare services-The nurse leaders' perspective
Hilde Søreide1, Dagrun Kyrkjebø1, Maj-Britt Råholm1
1Faculty of Health and Social Sciences Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Forde Norway.
Aim:
To examine perceptions of key challenges that nursing leadership face when organizing healthcare services in the municipality.
Design:
A qualitative study involving community nurse leaders (N = 9) in two focus group interviews.
Methods:
The material has been processed and interpreted in accordance with the phenomenological-hermeneutical tradition, and this process was inspired by Graneheim and Lundman.
Results:
Three themes were identified in this study: (a) Tension between organizing the daily work and future challenges; (b) Challenges with recruiting enough registered nurse (RNs) in municipal healthcare services; and (c) Competence development plan-a strategic tool for nursing leadership. The municipal healthcare services need a better knowledge base with better knowledge of both the content and quality of services, organization, leadership and management, thus improving new forms of work and professional approaches.
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