Registered Nurse Staffing and Patient and Nurse Outcomes in Hospitals: A Commentary  

Oleh:

Clarke, Sean P. ; Aiken, Linda H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice vol. 4 no. 2 (Mei 2003), page 104-111.
Topik: hospital mortality; public policy; nursing staff; hospital; personnel staffing and scheduling; quality of nursing care in hospitals
Fulltext: 104PPN42.pdf (67.93KB)

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The authors’ research group published a major article in October 2002 showing a strong effect of nurse staffing on both patient outcomes and factors related to nurse turnover in 168 Pennsylvania hospitals. This article reviews major design elements and findings of the study and discusses policy implications of this research. Even though evidence is mounting that hospital staffing is a public health issue, regulation of staffing levels remains controversial. Higher quality staffing data that incorporate information about patients’ needs for nursing care are required for better administrative decisionmaking and research purposes. That the current nurse shortage is occurring in an era of renewed concerns about safety in hospitals offers unique opportunities for developing public policy to remedy problems with staffing and other longstanding workplace environment issues in hospital nursing.

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