PURPOSE
This study was conducted to identify the influence of nurse manager and peer group caring behaviors as perceived by nurses on intention to retention.
METHODS
The participants for this study were 229 nurses who had worked for over 6 months in general hospitals located in J province. Survey data were analyzed descriptive statistics and t-tests, ANOVAs with Scheffé's post-hoc testing, Pearson's correlation coefficients, and hierarchical regression analysis.
RESULTS
The scores for ‘manager and peer group caring behaviors’ and intention to retention were all at a moderate level, although the subjects perceived ‘peer group caring behaviors’ as higher compared to ‘manager caring behaviors’. There were significant differences in ‘manager caring behaviors’ scores by suitability for present working department and employment status and in ‘peer group caring behaviors’ scores by suitability for present working department. The factors influencing nurses' intention to retention were religion, suitability for present department, clinical experience of over ten years, ‘manager caring behaviors’, and ‘peer group caring behaviors’ CONCLUSION: To improve nurses' intention to retention, it may be necessary to alter the transfer and arrangement strategies of their working environments to better consider nurses' aptitude and competence, and thereby increase both manager and peer group caring behaviors.

Citations

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PURPOSE
The purpose of the study was to identify characteristics of nursing and caring concepts measured by nursing competencies or caring behaviors tools for general nurses working in acute care hospitals.
METHODS
Five major nursing literature databases were used to identify the relevant tools. The study included 19 nursing competencies tools with a total of 843 measurement items and 12 caring behaviors tools with 334 items. According to the International Council of Nurses (ICN)'s Competencies Framework and 8Cs suggested by Roach (1987) and Pusari (1998), the measurement items were classified by two researchers independently first and in agreement finally.
RESULTS
Competency of ‘key principles of care’ including sub-areas of the ICN Framework was most commonly found: on average 49.3% of nursing competencies items and 91.9% of caring behaviors items. 97.0% of the caring behaviors items were classified into one of six Cs: competence (27.5%), confidence (21.3%), compassion (17.1%), commitment (16.5%), communication (9.9%), or conscience (4.8%).
CONCLUSION
Nursing competencies tools were more likely to measure ‘what to do’ focusing on tasks, while caring behaviors tools were to measure ‘how to do’ focusing on nurses' attitudes or values. Nursing practices should be evaluated with both nursing competencies and caring behaviors tools, considering that nursing and caring were differently conceptualized in the quantitative tools.

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• Concept analysis of end-of-life care competency of long-term-care-hospital nurses: Using a hybrid model
  Sookyeon Son, Mi-Kyeong Jeon
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• Questionnaire Development of a Good Nurse and Better Nursing From Korean Nurses' Perspective
  Mihyun PARK, Eun-Jun PARK
  Journal of Nursing Research.2020; 28(6): e120.     CrossRef
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  SookBin IM, MiKyoung CHO, MyoungLyun HEO
  Journal of Nursing Research.2020; 28(2): e80.     CrossRef
• Analysis of Korean Nursing Studies Applied in Interpersonal Caring Theory
  Heeyoung Kim
  Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing.2020; 27(2): 116.     CrossRef
• A Review of the Korean Nursing Research Literature with Focus on Quantitative Measurement of Caring
  Jeong-Hee Kim, Young Sook Park
  Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing.2018; 29(2): 155.     CrossRef

PURPOSE
This study was done to provide fundamental ontological understanding of caring and inquiring into the possibility of a caring practice in nursing based on existential phenomenology.
METHODS
According to Heidegger's existential phenomenology, caring has been interpreted as a fundamental ontological basis for caring practice in nursing. Further, based on Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, the meaning of the lived experience of illness and the way of caring practice have been described from the aspect of the existential involvement in the embodied life world.
RESULTS
Heidegger's phenomenology provided ontological thinking about caring, which is understood in a basic way as the possibility of human existence and dwelling in oneself in the confrontation of the illness experience. Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology offered a meaning of human existence according to bodily intention and situated freedom in the life world. This perspective of embodiment enables nurses to understand bodily experiences of patients and recovery of their bodily capacity in responding to the situation in caring practice.
CONCLUSION
Existential phenomenology gives insight into fundamental reflection for caring attitude and practice in nursing. Existential phenomenological nursing research can provide descriptions and meaning of the lived experience of illness and a way of coping with the crisis of human existence in caring practice.

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  Asian Nursing Research.2024; 18(1): 3.     CrossRef
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  Hae Ok Kim
  Journal of Korean Public Health Nursing.2024; 38(2): 191.     CrossRef
• Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study on Caring Experience of the Mothers of Children with Epilepsy
  Woo Joung Joung, Myungsun Yi
  Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing.2017; 47(1): 71.     CrossRef
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  Kap-Chul Cho
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