Identifying Optimal Labor and Delivery Unit Nurse Staffing

Chapter 39. Nurse Staffing, Models of Care Delivery, and Interventions

Nurse Staffing , Models of Care Delivery , and Interventions

Absenteeism and Nurse Staffing

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses with similar skills to similar inpatient units, adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds available nurse shifts, and choosing the number of nurses who float to different units depending on realized demand. All of these decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple nursing units of two hospitals to...

Nurse staffing and patient outcomes.

BACKGROUND Nursing studies have shown that nursing care delivery changes affect staff and organizational outcomes, but the effects on client outcomes have not been studied sufficiently. OBJECTIVE To describe, at the level of the nursing care unit, the relationships among total hours of nursing care, registered nurse (RN) skill mix, and adverse patient outcomes. METHODS The adverse outcomes ...

Nurse staffing matters: now what?

To cite: Sales A. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:241–243. Brooks Carthon and colleagues assess the relationship between the quality of hospital work environments for registered nurses and ‘missed care’ reported by nurses. Similar to other authors, they define missed care as care that nurses regarded as necessary but left undone due to a lack of time. Brooks Carthon and colleagues also explore the relatio...