INTRODUCTION Studies provide evidence that reduced nurse staffing resources are associated to an increase in health care-associated infections in intensive care units, but tools to assess the contribution of the mechanisms driving these relations are still lacking. We present an agent-based model of pathogen spread that can be used to evaluate the impact on nosocomial risk of alternative manage...

OBJECTIVE To examine the changes in licensed nursing staff in Pennsylvania hospitals from 1991 to 1997, and to assess the relationship of licensed nursing staff with patient adverse events in hospitals. DATA SOURCE A convenience sample of all Pennsylvania, acute-care, hospitals, 1991 to 1997. STUDY DESIGN The study first describes the percentage change of licensed nursing staff categories i...

BACKGROUND Nurse staffing interventions have been introduced across countries in recent years in response to changing patient requirements, developments in patient care, and shortages of qualified nursing staff. These include changes in skill mix, grade mix or qualification mix, staffing levels, nursing shifts or nurses' work patterns. Nurse staffing has been closely linked to patient outcomes,...

BACKGROUND Teamwork-that is, collaboration and communication-is an important factor for safe healthcare, but professions perceive the quality of teamwork differently. OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between simulation-based team training (SBTT) and different professions' self-efficacy, experienced quality of collaboration and communication, perceptions of teamwork and safety, together w...

Voluntary nurse turnover, which is costly and disrupts patient care, has not been studied as an organizational phenomenon within substance abuse treatment organizations. In this exploratory study, we examined the frequency and correlates of nurse turnover within treatment programs affiliated with the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network. During face-to-face interviews conducted...

News media over the past two years have focused intensively on the implications of hospitals having too few nurses: Reader's Digest, " How hospitals are gambling with your life " (2001); New York Times, " Nursing shortage is raising worries on patients' care " (2001); Wall Street Journal, " How to lessen impact of nursing shortage on your hospital stay " (2001); Chicago Tribune, " Nursing mista...

The aim of this review was to examine the evidence regarding barriers to nurse leadership. Nurses comprise the largest segment of the healthcare workforce. Nursing has consistently been ranked as the most respected position by United States Gallop Poles with the exception of 2011 when fire fighters were ranked number 1. However, the percentage of nurse hospital and health system board members d...

This action research project was the formal stage of a much longer developmental journey. It involved a consultant nurse and staff working in a general intensive care unit that had become a Nursing Development Unit (NDU). Our mission was to continue to improve the care provided to our patients and their families through developing nurses and nursing. The journey began in 1989, three years befor...

Background : One of the groups involved in Covid-19 is health care workers, especially nurses, who, in addition to endangering their physical health, are exposed to psychological damage. The aim of this study was to compare the stress, anxiety and depression of nurse staffs against non-nurse  in the face of Covid-19. Methods: The present study is a descriptive cross-sectional study in which 29...