“…Workers who display counterproductive work behaviour are aware that they are violating commonly shared ethical and moral principles and rules (Spector & Fox, 2005), so that their aim is to harm the organization and even the people within it, including colleagues, supervisors, subordinates, and clients (Fox, Spector, & Miles, 2001;Spector & Fox, 2005). Unfortunately, counterproductive work behaviours are also a reality in the nursing profession (Fida et al, 2015), negatively influencing nursing sensitive outcomes and quality of nursing care (Zaghini et al, 2016). Given this, it is pivotal for nurse managers to empower their staff and assess the appropriateness of care by including indicators of nursing sensitive outcomes -which are conditions, behaviours or measurable perceptions of the patient or family (Butler et al, 2011;Doran, 2003;Kane, Shamliyan, Mueller, Duval, & Wilt, 2007;Kuokkanen et al, 2007;Palese et al, 2008) -as an integral part of health management (Dubois et al, 2017).…”