The organization of nursing work in Italian hospitals—implications for job satisfaction, nurse well‐being and patient safety

Enhancing the well-being of nurses and their job satisfaction are two of the most discussed topics in the international literature in the last years. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the interest in these two topics, and several studies have explored moral distress and burnout experienced by healthcare professionals (Galanis et al., 2021). The incidence of the phenomenon has grown so much recently that the topic has attracted the attention not only of scientific journals but also of daily press, which focuses on the emotional distress of nurses and their frequent intention to leave the profession. Nurses' distress has been shown to be related to excessive workload, poor organization and difficulty delivering safe care in contexts (Sasso et al., 2019).