Optimal nurse staffing and scheduling for emergency departments
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Problems in staffing of emergency departments.
PREVIOUS speakers have recounted most of the difficulties at present being experienced in the staffing of casualty departments and these have been further amplified in discussion. It would seem more valuable, rather than re-iterating these, to put forward some possible solutions and criticize some of the solutions suggested by others. Before a clear decision can be reached it will be necessary ...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Integrated Care
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1568-4156
DOI: 10.5334/ijic.s2204