Safeguarding the patient in municipal healthcare-A hermeneutic focus group study of Nordic nursing leadership.
Rita SolbakkenTerese Elisabet BondasAnne KasénPublished in: Journal of nursing management (2019)
First-line nurse managers need to be clinically present in order to safeguard the patient and to fulfil their threefold responsibilities for the patient, the staff and the economy. This study might also contribute to the political discussion concerning why nurses has to be first-line nurse managers and cannot be replaced by economists.