"Nurse Staffing"

BACKGROUND: Emphasizing the crucial significance of maintaining a national nursing workforce well-prepared with the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities to respond effectively is the growing frequency of natural and environmental disasters, coupled with public health emergencies such as the COVID-19 pandemic. So, the study aimed to explore pediatric nurses' preparedness to monkeypox outbreak, and their stress during this outbreak in Egypt. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a 416 nurses direct care for children at selected governmental hospitals in Egypt...

IMPORTANCE: The increase in new registered nurses is expected to outpace retirements, yet health care systems continue to struggle with recruiting and retaining nurses. OBJECTIVE: To examine the top contributing factors to nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021 in New York and Illinois. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cross-sectional study analyzed survey data (RN4CAST-NY/IL) from registered nurses in New York and Illinois from April 13 to June 22, 2021...

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District nurses provide a vital service to individuals and their families and carers in the community. With increasing complexity of care and changes in the needs of the UK population, developing evidence-based workforce and workload tools which are fit for purpose is essential. This article describes the development, piloting and implementation of the District Nursing Welsh Levels of Care (DN WLoC), acuity and dependency tool which has been designed to be used alongside nurses professional judgment, to evidence the acuity and dependency of patients, and to help inform decisions of nurse staffing requirements in district nursing services...

BACKGROUND: As the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe at the beginning of 2020, healthcare systems were forced to rapidly adapt and expand to meet the sudden surge in demand for intensive care services. This study is the first systematic analysis of the strategies employed by German hospitals to recruit personnel and expand bed capacities during the first wave of the pandemic, and to evaluate the effectiveness of those recruitment measures. METHODS: 152 German hospitals with intensive care capacities were selected and invited to participate in an online-based retrospective survey...

BACKGROUND: Alarm fatigue among nurses working in the intensive care unit has garnered considerable attention as a national patient safety priority. A viable solution for reducing the frequency of alarms and unnecessary noise is intensive care unit alarm monitor customization. LOCAL PROBLEM: A 24-bed cardiovascular and thoracic surgery intensive care unit in a large academic medical center identified a high rate of alarms and associated noise as a problem contributing to nurse alarm fatigue...

The compelling evidence that higher RN to resident ratios improve health outcomes in nursing homes underscores the necessity of implementing evidence-based RN nursing home staffing standards. However, there are other dimensions to RN staffing in nursing homes beyond the numbers or hours per resident day (HPRD) that influence the quality of care. Without attending to a broader focus on nurse staffing, the benefits of increased RN staffing levels will not be achieved. This article outlines how RN HPRD can be maximized by magnifying the RN's scope of practice and attending to how nursing care is organized and delivered in nursing homes using a nursing practice model framework...

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Improved understanding of factors affecting prolonged emergency department (ED) length of stay is crucial to improving patient outcomes. Our investigation builds on prior work by considering ED length of stay in operationally distinct time periods and using benchmark and novel machine learning techniques applied only to data that would be available to ED operators in real time. METHODS: This study was a retrospective review of patient visits over 1 year at 2 urban EDs, including 1 academic and 1 academically affiliated ED, and 2 suburban, community EDs...

To deal with the upcoming challenges and complexity of the nursing profession, it is deemed important to reflect on our current organization of care. However, before starting to rethink the organization of nursing care, an overview of important elements concerning nursing care organization, more specifically nursing models, is necessary. The aim of this study was to conduct a mapping review, accompanied by an evidence map to map the existing literature, to map the field of knowledge on a meta-level and to identify current research gaps concerning nursing models in a hospital setting...

BACKGROUND: Emergency departments (ED) nurses experience high mental workloads because of unpredictable work environments; however, research evaluating ED nursing workload using a tool incorporating nurses' perception is lacking. Quantify ED nursing subjective workload and explore the impact of work experience on perceived workload. METHODS: Thirty-two ED nurses at a tertiary academic hospital in the Republic of Korea were surveyed to assess their subjective workload for ED procedures using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Task Load Index (NASA-TLX)...

BACKGROUND: Despite the high workload of cardiac intensive care unit (ICU), there is a paucity of evidence on the association between nurse workforce and mortality in patients with cardiogenic shock (CS). This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic impact of the ICU nursing grade on mortality and cost-effectiveness in CS. METHODS: A nationwide analysis was performed using the K-NHIS database. Patients diagnosed with CS and admitted to the ICU at tertiary hospitals were enrolled...

BACKGROUND: The National Early Warning Score scale correlates well with the intensity of the patient's acute condition. It could also correlate with the nursing activity load and prove useful in defining and redistributing nursing resources based on the acuity of patients. AIM: To assess whether patients' National Early Warning Score at hospital admission correlates with objective nursing demands and can be used to optimize the distribution of available care resources...

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore the experience and perceived value of travel nurses in a children's hospital. BACKGROUND: Children's hospitals face unique challenges related to highly specialized care requirements and workforce expansion limitations. Travel nurses can augment nurse staffing capacity during times of intense demand and may offer insights as organizations seek to strengthen work environments. METHODS: Pediatric travel nurses currently contracted at the hospital were invited to participate in a focus group or interview...

BACKGROUND: Outpatient oncology infusion centers (OICs) use acuity to quantify the complexity and intensity of care to improve staffing levels and equitable patient assignments. OIC interviews revealed inconsistent measurement of acuity and a mixture of use cases. No publications measured objective operational benefits beyond surveyed nurse satisfaction or compared different models of acuity. OBJECTIVES: This study assessed three acuity models across multiple centers to determine whether acuity was superior to patient volumes or patient hours in predicting the number of nurses needed to care for scheduled patients in an OIC, as well as the effect on objective metrics of missed nurse lunch breaks and patient wait times...

AIM: This study aimed to determine whether the policy of imposing deductions on medical institutions in South Korea led to increased submission of nursing grade data. BACKGROUND: In Korea, medical institutions are required to report data on their nursing workforce; however, many institutions did not comply with this regulation, making it difficult to gauge their level of nurse staffing. Therefore, in 2020, a nursing fee deduction policy was introduced that penalizes medical institutions financially for failing to submit nursing workforce data...

INTRODUCTION: There is substantial variability in patient outcomes for gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) across hospitals. This study aimed to identify hospital factors associated with GIB outcomes. METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries hospitalized for GIB from 2016-2018. These data were merged with the American Hospital Association Annual Survey data to incorporate hospital characteristics. We used generalized linear mixed effects models to estimate the effect of hospital level characteristics on patient outcomes after adjusting for patient risk factors including anticoagulant and antiplatelet use, recent GIB, and comorbidities...

Higher nurse-to-patient ratios are associated with poor patient care and adverse nurse outcomes, including emotional exhaustion and intention to leave. We examined the effect of nurses' intention to leave and nurse-patient workload on in-hospital patient mortality in Italy. A multicentered descriptive and regression study using clinical data of patients aged 50 years or older with a hospital stay of at least two days admitted to surgical wards linked with nurse variables including workload and education levels, work environment, job satisfaction, intention to leave, nurses' perception of quality and safety of care, and emotional exhaustion...

BACKGROUND: The relationship between nurse staffing, skill-mix and quality of care has been well-established in medical and surgical settings, however, there is relatively limited evidence of this relationship in emergency departments. Those that have been published identified that lower nurse staffing levels in emergency departments are generally associated with worse outcomes with the conclusion that the evidence in emergency settings was, at best, weak. METHODS: We searched thirteen electronic databases for potentially eligible papers published in English up to December 2023...

OBJECTIVES: Patient safety events (PSEs) have detrimental consequences for patients and healthcare staff, highlighting the importance of prevention. Although evidence shows that nurse staffing affects PSEs, the role of an appropriate nursing care delivery system remains unclear. The current study aimed to investigate whether nursing care delivery systems could prevent PSEs. METHODS: This retrospective study was conducted in Japan. The study examined the collaborative 4:2 nursing care delivery system in which 2 nurses are assigned to care for 4 patients, collaborating to perform tasks, and provide care...

IMPORTANCE: This study addresses the pressing clinical question of how variations in physician and nursing staffing levels influence methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) rates, providing essential insights for optimizing staff allocation and improving patient outcomes in critical care settings. OBJECTIVE: The main objective is to assess whether variations in staffing ratios and workload conceptualization significantly alter the rates of MRSA acquisitions in the ICU setting...