Aim Explore nursing management issues within COVID‐19 narratives of Italian front‐line nurses. Background The COVID‐19 pandemic has dramatically affected health systems and professionals worldwide. Italian nurses have key messages for nursing leaders following their acute experiences in the pandemic. Method A descriptive qualitative study with thematic analysis. Results Twenty‐three testimonies from clinical nurses were analyzed. Six macro themes were identified: organizational and logistic change; leadership models adopted to manage the emergency; changes in nursing approaches; personal protective equipment issues; physical and psychological impact on nurses; and team value/spirit. Conclusions Our testimonies highlighted the huge impact of COVID‐19 on the Italian nursing workforce, especially in terms of the high risks associated with caring for COVID‐19 patients, exacerbated by the shortage of appropriate personal protective equipment. Nurses had to care for their colleagues and live separately from their families to avoid infecting them, revealing nurses’ resilience and the important role of effective and sensitive management. Implications for Nursing Management Nurse managers must be prepared for the impact of pandemics on staff and need to ensure availability and replacement of quality personal protective equipment, rehearse strategies for communicating with patients whilst wearing personal protective equipment and establish protocols for communicating with relatives.

To identify predictors and consequences of violence or aggression events against nurses and nursing students in different work contexts. Workplace violence against nurses and nursing students is a very common and widespread phenomenon. Actions to manage or prevent violent events could be implemented knowing the risk factors and consequences. However, there is a lack of systematic reviews that summarize knowledge on the predictors and consequences of workplace violence. A scoping review was conducted using electronic databases including APA PsycInfo, CINAHL, Cochrane, Ovid Medline, PubMed and Scopus. After full text analysis, 87 papers were included in the current scoping review. Risk factors of horizontal violence were grouped into ‘personal’ and ‘Environmental and organizational’, and for violence perpetrated by patients into ‘personal’, ‘Environmental and organizational’ and ‘Characteristics of the perpetrators’. The results of this scoping review uncover problems that often remain unaddressed, especially where these episodes are very frequent. Workplace violence prevention and management programmes are essential to counter it. The predictors and the consequents identified constitute the body of knowledge necessary for nurse managers to develop and implement policy and system actions to effectively manage or prevent violent events.