OBJECTIVE To promote evidence-based decision making regarding hospital staffing, the authors examined the characteristics of supplemental nurses, as well as the relationship of supplemental staff to nurse outcomes and adverse events. BACKGROUND The use of supplemental nurses to bolster permanent nursing staff in hospitals is widespread but controversial. Quality concerns have been raised rega...

Background: Staff development for hospital nurses is a critical issue in the provision of quality patient care. Staffdevelopment nurses should have expertise in education in order to ensure its effectiveness. However, these nurses in Japan often do not have specialized training in this role. This study aimed to investigate the current status of work and educational needs of staff-development nu...

PURPOSE The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored a nationwide study to evaluate the federal paid feeding assistant (PFA) regulation that allows nursing homes to hire single-task workers to provide feeding assistance to nursing home residents. Organizers designed the PFA regulation to increase the number of staff available to pro...

AIM The aim of this study was to explore the processes that nurse managers use to promote change in their wards. DESIGN Qualitative research. METHODS A grounded theory approach was used. Participants were 23 nurse managers and 17 nurses in Japan. Interviews were conducted between March 2014 - December 2015. Mainly, nurse managers' data was analysed. RESULTS The change process led by the n...

abstract background: job satisfaction of nurses is an important concept in nursing profession because it influences nursing care. head nurses play a crucial role in the job satisfaction of nurse staffs. the current study, therefore, aimed to investigate the effect of head nurse empowerment program (hnep) on job satisfaction of nurses. materials and methods: this quasi‑experimental study was con...

AIM This paper reports a study that explored the lived experiences of newly qualified registered children's nurses (RCN) in their transition from postgraduate student nurse to staff nurse. RESEARCH QUESTION What are the experiences of newly qualified RCNs in their transition from postgraduate student nurse to staff nurse? METHODS A qualitative phenomenological approach was chosen for the st...