Nursing Management Practices on the Quality Nursing Care among Nurses in a Level I Hospital

Patient outcomes, satisfaction, safety, and efficiency depend on quality nursing care. Nurses improve patient well-being and the healthcare system by providing personalized, evidence-based, effective care, and effective use of nursing management. Finding the influence of nursing management practice on quality nursing care at the perspective of nurses is scarcely studied especially at the local level. This research made use of the descriptive, correlational (predictive) design to assess whether the dimensions of nursing management practices predicted the quality nursing care as perceived by the nurses in a Level I hospital in Lanao del Sur for the second quarter of 2025. Findings of the study revealed that overall, the nursing management practice of the nurses was fair. Specifically, planning, organizing, staffing, leading, communicating, decision-making, and controlling were fairly practiced by the nurses. Overall, the quality of nursing care was very good. Specifically, task‐oriented activities, staff characteristics, physical environment, human-oriented activities, pre-conditioning activities, and patient outcomes were rated as having a very good quality. The nursing management function of organizing predicted quality nursing care. However, quality nursing care is not influenced by planning, staffing, leading, communicating, decision-making, and controlling. The higher the practice of organizing, the better the quality nursing care. To address the findings of the study, a quality nursing care enhancement plan is proposed.