title: Mitigating the Impact of Nurse Manager Large Spans of Control.
abstract: Nurse managers are instrumental in achievement of organizational and unit performance goals. Greater spans of control for managers are associated with decreased satisfaction and performance. An interprofessional team measured one organization's nurse manager span of control, providing administrative assistant support and transformational leadership development to nurse managers with the largest spans of control. Nurse manager satisfaction and transformational leadership competency significantly improved following the implementation of large span of control mitigation strategies.
authors.affiliation: Northeast Georgia Health System, Gainesville, Georgia (Ms Simpson); and Adult Health, School of Nursing, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama (Drs Dearmon and Graves).
authors.forename: Brenda Baird
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Simpson
authors.forename: Valorie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dearmon
authors.forename: Rebecca
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Graves
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000523:psychology*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009738:Nursing Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000523:psychology*; D016526:Workload / Q000523:psychology*