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To study the impact of role, job‐ and organizational characteristics on nurse managers' work related stress and well‐being such as feelings of emotional exhaustion, work engagement, job satisfaction and turnover intention.

Various studies investigated role‐, job‐ and organizational characteristics influencing nurse‐related work environments. Research on nurse managers' related work environments define influencing factors, but, a clear understanding of the impact of nurse‐managers' work‐environment characteristics on their work related stress and well‐being is limited.

A cross‐sectional design with a survey.

A cross‐sectional survey (N = 365) was carried out between December 2011–March 2012. The questionnaire was based on various validated measurement instruments identified by expert meetings (e.g. staff nurses, nurse managers and executives and physicians …