Aim: Home-visiting nursing agencies are required to foster staff nurse's work engagement; thus, the factors related to work engagement require identification. This study examined relational coordination among colleagues and agency span of control on the work engagement of home-visiting nurses.
Methods: Cross-sectional data from 93 staff nurses in 31 home-visiting nursing agencies were collected via a survey and analyzed using mixed linear regression.
Results: There was no significant main effect of relational coordination among nurse colleagues on work engagement. In large agencies with a large span of control, relational coordination among nursing colleagues predicted work engagement. Nursing managers' relational coordination was found to be positively associated with staff nurse work engagement.
Conclusion: Agency span of control is a moderating factor on the positive effect of relational coordination with nursing colleagues on staff nurse work engagement.
Keywords: coordination; home-visiting nurse; span of control; work engagement.
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