Aydoğdu, Ana Luiza Ferreira2025-03-112025-03-112024Aydoğdu, A. L. F. (2024). Perspectives of nurse leaders regarding time management in nursing: Qualitative research. Journal of Health and Nursing Management, 11(2), pp. 372-382. https://doi.org/10.54304/SHYD.2024.600242149-018Xhttps://doi.org/10.54304/SHYD.2024.60024https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13055/930Aim: To describe the experiences and opinions of nurses in leadership positions about time management and provide recommendations to avoid wasting time in the nursing field. Method: This is a qualitative descriptive study. It involved self-descriptions of open-ended questions of 32 nurses in leadership positions from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Data were interpreted through content analysis. Results: Data were organized into five themes: (1) Factors that facilitate time management in nursing, (2) Factors that hinder time management in nursing, (3) Impairments to care due to inappropriate use of time, (4) Differences in relation to other health professions, and (5) Measures for optimizing time management in nursing. Conclusion: Nursing shortages, work overload, intercurrences, disorganization, and distractions are barriers to managing time. Nurse participants feel undervalued, have low salaries, and need to have more than one job to maintain themselves, and all these factors are obstacles to the adequate allocation of time that threaten the quality of care.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessQualitative ResearchQuality of Health CareNurse AdministratorsNursingTime ManagementNitel AraştırmaSağlık Hizmet KalitesiYönetici HemşirelerHemşirelikZaman YönetimiArticle10.54304/SHYD.2024.600241123723822-s2.0-85217806536