Keywords
Work Engagement
Nurse Administrators
Work
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Abstract
The possible differences between several generations of nurses working in teams can constitute a challenge for nurse managers, which justifies their assessment and their impact on work involvement. With this work we seek to analyze the generational differences of nurses in terms of their professional involvement. For this, a quantitative, observational and descriptive-cross-sectional study was developed. The Work Involvement Scale (UWES) was used, consisting of three dimensions (Vigor, Dedication and Absorption), applied to a sample of 385 nurses from a hospital in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley region. The results show that there are generational differences with regard to their involvement at work. The Baby Boomer Generation presents the highest results in the three dimensions of the scale, followed by Generation X and Generation Y. The Dedication dimension presents the highest averages in all generations. The generational differences were confirmed by demanding that nurse managers take this phenomenon into account and implement different approaches to nurses of each generation, strengthening the team as a whole, promoting the involvement of nurses in the organization and paving the way for the new generations.
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