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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"nurse staffing"”.
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Improving Patient Satisfaction through Reducing Nurse Overtime and Redesigning Nurse Staffing and Scheduling
… baseline daily full time equivalent (FTE) staffing strategy for future schedules, increasing nursing FTE, and maintaining institutional staffing standards. Standard calculated daily nursing requirements targeted 17.0 FTE. Implementation occurred over a three month period including schedule …
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A Cost-Effectiveness Study of Nursing Home Turnover Rates on Registered Nurse Staffing
… It has been shown that increased Registered Nurse (RN) care is much needed, at a threshold of 0.75 hours per resident per day for long-term care stay to improve outcomes. Anticipated benefits to residents include decreased adverse outcomes, increased quality and continuity of care. Potential …
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Nurse staffing, patient falls and medication errors in Western Australian hospitals: Is there a relationship?
… of death. Research on the relationship between nurse staffing, patient falls, and medication errors are limited. Even scarcer are studies that examine this relationship on a nursing shift by shift and ward by ward basis, and no research exists on shift overlap periods and adverse patient …
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Association Between Nurse Staffing Indicators, Patient Falls, and Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers in the Acute Care Setting
… To determine if there is an association between nurse staffing indicators, direct care nurses' perceptions of staffing and resources adequacy, patient falls, and hospital acquired pressure ulcers.</p> <p><strong>Design:</strong> A non-experimental, descriptive, correlational design using …
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The Development And Validation Of An Acuity Tool In A Pediatric Outpatient Burn Clinic
<p>In outpatient settings, the role of nurses has shifted from episodic, reactive care to management of patients with higher acuity. In a pediatric outpatient clinic specializing in burn injuries, it became apparent that the lack of an acuity tool to measure patient complexity challenged efficient …
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Optimizing Engagement in the Acute Care Setting: A Nurse Driven Staffing Model
… one variable. The development of effective nurse staffing strategies will ensure those delivering care are engaged and able to meet the present day demands. Understanding the complex environment in which care is being delivered and the increasing demands put on those delivering care, Legacy …
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The impact of an ambulatory infusion center patient acuity scale on nursing satisfaction with workload: A mixed method study
… in the healthcare setting and is a driver of nurse staffing and patient scheduling. Much of the work on patient acuity has focused on the inpatient setting, but because care is transitioning to the ambulatory setting these departments must ensure nursing care is provided in a manner that …
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A Simulation-Based Approach for Optimal Nurse Scheduling in an Emergency Department
… of this research is to determine an appropriate nurse staffing strategy for the Intermediate Care Unit (ICU) and the Critical Care Unit (CCU) of the Emergency Department at York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania. This strategy must adhere to certain administrative policies while keeping patient …
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Float Nurses’ Association with Nurse Sensitive Indicators: A Cross-Sectional Study
Floating is a common nurse staffing strategy, yet its effects on nurse-sensitive indicators (NSIs) remain largely unexplored. The study aimed to evaluate the effects of two distinct forms of floating: nurses from dedicated float pools and unit-based nurses temporarily assigned to other units. Using …
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Variation in Organizational Resources and Nurse & Patient Outcomes at Hospitals Serving Economically Disadvantaged Patients
… The organizational resources available to nurses, including appropriate levels of nurse staffing and a positive practice environment, are strongly associated with care quality, as well as nurse and patient outcomes. However, little is known about the influence of differences in …
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Perspectives of ICU Nurses on Professional Autonomy: A Descriptive Qualitative Study
… in rapidly changing clinical conditions, ICU nurses need to make decisions, advocate for their patients, and use their clinical judgment promptly. While professional autonomy has been linked to job satisfaction, retention, and patient safety, few studies have sought ICU nurses' perspectives on …
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Patient safety : evaluation of the impact of nursing hours per patient day staffing method in Western Australia
… March 2002 Western Australia (WA) mandated a new staffing method—nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD). This method used a “bottom up” approach to classify each hospital ward into one of seven categories using characteristics such as patient complexity, intervention levels, the presence of high …
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The Development And Implementation Of A Forecasting Model For Inpatient Nurse Scheduling
… was designed to develop a model for predicting nurse scheduling needs in a hospital unit based on historical patient census and nurse staffing requirements.</p> <p>Background: Many hospitals use outdated non-data driven methods for nurse scheduling.</p> <p>Methods: Historical nurse scheduling …
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Off-Shift Nursing and Quality Patient Outcomes
… dissertation explores off-shift care including nurse staffing and human capital variables and their impact on patient safety in acute care hospitals. The importance of off-shift quality care in acute care hospitals is discussed in the first chapter. In the second chapter, findings from a …
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Throughput and Nurses' Workloads: Influences on Nurse and Patient Outcomes
… units can significantly impact the workloads of nurses. However, very few staffing measures account for patient throughput, thus underestimating nurses' workloads. Research has shown that when nurse staffing is more favorable, patient and nurse outcomes are more favorable. What is not known, and …
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Implementing and Evaluating a Clinical Information Interface between an Electronic Medical Record and a Patient Classification System
… One answer may come by focusing on nurse staffing in acute care hospitals. Considering the impact RNs have on patient quality outcomes and the bottom line of hospitals, appropriate management of the RN workforce is one of the most important areas hospitals can focus on in order to …
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Determinants of Nursing-Sensitive Patient Safety Outcomes Among Patients Admitted to Medical and Surgical Acute Care Settings in Ethiopia: A Mixed-Methods Study
… There is a shortage of empirical evidence on nurses’ contribution to the quality of care generally, and patient safety outcomes particularly, in Ethiopia: a low-income country. The main aim of this study was to identify the determinants of nursing-sensitive patient safety outcomes among …
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