Background: Work addiction it is an emerging topic in organizational research because it has a great impact on human resources, especial-ly in the health sector, and has led to the development of a number of valid assessment tools. Among work addiction scales, the Bergen Work Addiction Scale...

Background/Objectives: Palliative care (PC) has traditionally focused on patients with cancer and their families. However, individuals living with advanced non-malignant chronic diseases and their caregivers face comparable challenges that significantly affect their quality of life. This study aimed to explore the PC needs of patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions through the lived experiences of both patients and their informal caregivers. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight patients and nine caregivers recruited via the Municipality of Katerini “Help at Home” program (Jan–Mar 2025). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim (in Greek), and analyzed inductively using reflexive thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from the International Hellenic University (Ref. No. 18/22.12.2022), and official consent was gained from the Municipality of Katerini (Approval Ref. No. 7803-/30/01/2025). Results: Five themes emerged: (1) basic daily care and physical support; (2) psychosomatic and emotional impact; (3) social withdrawal and role change; (4) support systems and coping resources; and (5) experience with the healthcare system and organized care. Participants highlighted urgent needs for home-based physiotherapy/nursing, caregiver respite, and psychological support. Coping and resilience-related resources—expressed through family support, familiarity of the home environment, and spirituality—were described as essential mechanisms that helped dyads sustain home care and shaped how needs were experienced across multiple domains, particularly amid service gaps. Conclusions: These findings document complex, interlinked needs among patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions and their caregivers and support the development of community-based, integrated PC services. Larger, multicenter studies and the development/validation of a needs-assessment tool are recommended.

Background/Objectives: Job performance among critical care nurses is a pivotal determinant of patient safety. While individual psychosocial factors such as self-care and self-compassion have been separately linked to professional efficacy, limited research has examined their integrated contribution to job performance in high-stakes healthcare environments. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in five public hospitals in Northern Greece. A convenience sample of 311 critical care nurses and nurse assistants completed validated self-report measures assessing self-care, self-compassion, mindfulness, physical activity, secondary traumatic stress, and job performance. The data were analyzed using non-parametric statistics and multivariate linear regression. Results: Higher levels of self-care (p = 0.003) and self-compassion (p = 0.042), and lower levels of secondary traumatic stress (p = 0.04), were significantly associated with better job performance. The final regression model explained 31% of the variance in performance scores (R² = 0.31). Mindfulness and physical activity were not significantly associated with job performance. Secondary traumatic stress emerged as the strongest negative predictor. Conclusions: Internal psychosocial resources, particularly self-care and self-compassion, significantly contribute to job performance among critical care nursing personnel. These findings underscore the relevance of embedding staff well-being strategies into organizational patient safety agendas. This multidimensional model provides a novel framework for developing targeted interventions in high-acuity healthcare settings.

Background/Objectives: Palliative care (PC) has traditionally focused on patients with cancer and their families. However, individuals living with advanced non-malignant chronic diseases and their caregivers face comparable challenges that significantly affect their quality of life. This study aimed to explore the PC needs of patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions through the lived experiences of both patients and their informal caregivers. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight patients and nine caregivers recruited via the Municipality of Katerini “Help at Home” program (Jan–Mar 2025). Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim (in Greek), and analysed inductively using thematic analysis. Ethical approval was obtained from the International Hellenic University (Ref. No. 18/22.12.2022), and official consent was gained from the Municipality of Katerini (Approval Ref. No. 7803-/30/01/2025). Results: Five themes emerged: (1) Basic daily care and physical support; (2) Psychosomatic and emotional impact; (3) Social withdrawal and role change; (4) Support systems and sources of resilience; and (5) Experience with the healthcare system and organized care. Participants highlighted urgent needs for home-based physiotherapy/nursing, caregiver respite, and psychological support. Resilience—expressed through family bonds, spirituality, and adaptive coping—also emerged as a cross-cutting dimension influencing how these needs were experienced across all domains. Conclusions: These findings document complex, interlinked needs among patients with advanced non-malignant chronic conditions and their caregivers and support the development of community-based, integrated PC services. Larger, multicenter studies and the development/validation of a needs-assessment tool are recommended.

Aim: To examine the relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and leadership style among nurse managers, and how the relationship is shaped by professional experience, hierarchical position, and healthcare facility size. The study explores whether EI functions as a conditional mechanism linking experience to leadership across hierarchical levels. Design: A cross‐sectional quantitative study. Methods: A total of 1243 nurse managers from public healthcare facilities participated in a survey conducted between November 2022 and January 2023. Emotional intelligence was measured using the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire–Short Form (TEIQue‐SF), and leadership style using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ). Differences across hierarchical levels were examined using repeated measures ANOVA. A conditional process analysis (PROCESS Model 59) tested the mediating role of EI and the moderating effect of hierarchical position, controlling for gender and facility size. Results: Transformational and transactional leadership were more pronounced among higher‐level managers, whereas passive leadership was more prevalent among front‐line managers. Emotional intelligence was positively associated with transformational and transactional leadership and negatively associated with passive leadership. EI demonstrated a conditional and partial mediating role in the relationship between professional experience and leadership, with effects varying across hierarchical levels. Hierarchical position moderated both the relationship between experience and EI and the association between EI and transformational leadership. Managers in larger healthcare facilities reported higher EI and lower passive leadership. Conclusion: Leadership in nursing management is shaped by the interaction between emotional competencies and organisational structure. Emotional intelligence operates as a context‐dependent capacity, whose development and expression are conditioned by hierarchical position and organisational environment. Impact: This study highlights that emotionally intelligent leadership is not solely an individual attribute but is structurally enabled or constrained. Supporting nurse managers requires organisational interventions, including supervisory time, mentorship, and conditions that sustain emotional regulation and reflective capacity. Patient or Public Contribution: No patient or public contribution.

Background: The use and innovation of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMs) offer a wealth of information regarding glycemic variability on a day-to-day basis, providing the opportunity to assess the broader picture of glycemic control compared with the static data from Blood Glucose Monitors. Diabetes self-management structured education (DSMSE) is the cornerstone of successful diabetes management. Educational programs on CGMs self-management, structured following National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidelines, have shown remarkable outcomes in glycemic management, technology acceptance and adherence, user satisfaction, and the reduction of diabetes-related distress. Purpose: Our study aims to gather information on all available structured educational programs for CGM self-management in people with type one diabetes and analyze their characteristics. Methods: The study is a mixed-method systematic review (PROSPERO registration number CRD42024579331). We searched the following databases (Cochrane Library, CINAHL, PubMed, and PsycINFO) from inception to May 7, 2024. Results: We included nine studies documenting nine structured educational programs on CGM self-management. These studies, published between 2019 and 2023, targeted adults, adolescents, and pediatric populations with type one diabetes using real-time CGM (rt-CGM) or intermittent scanning CGM (isCGM). Overall, 7/9 programs (ie, the CGM Academy, both versions, Spectrum, Flash, IDEAL, Share-plus, and ABC/is-CGM) met all the criteria for structured educational programs. Conclusion: Taking into consideration any limitation due to study heterogeneity, programs such as Spectrum and CGM Academy serve as comprehensive models, for CGM self-management education, as they meet all the NICE UK structured education criteria, and offer the most robust, holistic, and evidence-based curricula. They incorporate the most effective approaches, methods, and materials based on literature and utilize rt-CGM technology, which broader clinical evidence suggests is superior to isCGM in improving Time in Range and reducing hypoglycemia. The CGM Academy is particularly suited for pediatric and young adult populations, whereas Spectrum targets all populations (pediatric and adult) regardless of the rt-CGM manufacturer.