Purpose Nurses’ behaviors are largely influenced by their managers’ leadership style. The relationships between ethical leadership, trust, psychological well-being, and organizational citizenship behaviors have rarely been investigated in nursing studies. The current study attempted to examine the relationships between perceived ethical leadership, trust, psychological health, and nurses’ organizational citizenship behaviors towards their patients in the context of Chinese hospitals. Methods This research adopted a cross-sectional research design. Participants were 495 nurses solicited from six hospitals in China. Hayes’s PROCESS and SPSS 22 were employed to analyze the data. Results This study demonstrated ethical leadership perceived by nurses is positively associated with trust in management and psychological well-being. Trust in management is also positively associated with nurses’ organizational citizenship behaviors. The indirect effects of perceived ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behaviors through trust in management and psychological well-being were statically significant. Conclusion This study adds value to the literature by revealing ethical leadership boosts nurses’ trust in leadership and their psychological well-being, resulting in more organizational citizenship behaviors towards patients in the context of the Chinese hospitals. It is suggested that the hospital management creates an environment in which all members are treated fairly to boost nurses’ psychological health and improve their service quality toward patients’ satisfaction.

Many students suffer from academic stress and uncivil behaviors at colleges and there is a need to identify to what extent these negative phenomena might impact students’ mental health. The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between incivility, academic stress, and psychological health, as well as investigate the moderating role of gratitude. The study design of this research is cross-sectional. The final sample consisted of 895 university students in China; The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was utilized to conduct statistical analysis. Sample t-tests were used to examine whether there were gender differences in terms of four continuous variables: incivility, stress, gratitude, and psychological wellbeing. We also used multiple hierarchical linear regression analysis to test the relationships between the aforementioned four variables and the moderating effect of gratitude. The results of our study indicate that academic stress and incivility are positively associated with psychological distress, and gratitude moderates the relationship between incivility and psychological distress. However, no significant moderating effect of gratitude was found in the relationship between academic stress and psychological distress.

The transitional development of local colleges and universities meets the needs of China's economic and social development and the adjustment of higher education structure. The transition from a local college to a university of applied sciences which aims to cultivating applied talents must achieve five core shifts: the principle of majo r setting shifts from the perspective of pedagogy to the perspective of sociology; the talent training programs must be changed from an academic perspective to an applied perspective; constructing versatile rather than one-dimensional teaching staff group; teaching model reform must shift from theoretical instruction to the cooperation of industry, learning and research; teaching management mode should change from rigid to flexible. As long as the five core shifts are implemented, the transitional development of local colleges and universities can be realized.

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To boost education quality is a core goal of college teaching management. College teaching management reform is closely related to college-running idea. The core contents of college teaching management reform include the following: reshaping college spirit, optimizing college-running philosophy, reforming teaching management system, and constructing chaotic organization of college teaching management, free teaching objective, complete credit system and curriculum system paying attention to foundation and respecting selection. To enhance education quality is the lifeline and eternal theme of colleges. British educator Peter Scott considers in the popularization process and after popularization, with quantity expansion, education quality is very crucial for development of higher education and also a topic that all sectors of society pay close attention to[1]. As popularization of higher education arrives in China, colleges continuously increase enrollment, which results in many problems, such as large differences in the quality of student pool and shortage of student resources. Hence, severe challenges are brought to college teaching management, teaching reform and sustainable development of colleges. In order to adapt needs of situation development, colleges must establish scientific education development view, stick to stabilization of scale, optimization of structure, consolidation of characteristics and attention to innovation and walk the way of connotative development cored by quality promotion. Connotative development must highlight central position of teaching, reform teaching management idea and system, stimulate teachers and students to work on teaching research, strive to boost education quality and promote sustainable development of colleges.