Medical staffing of hospital geriatric units.

Nurse Absenteeism and Staffing Strategies for Hospital Inpatient Units

Nurse managers regularly make decisions that include assigning nurses to inpatient units and adjusting staffing when anticipated demand exceeds scheduled nurse shifts. These types of decisions are affected by absenteeism. We use data from multiple inpatient units of two hospitals to study which factors, including unit culture, short-term workload, and shift type explain nurse absenteeism. The a...

Hospital medical staffing and vocational guidance: teaching hospital juniors' views.

measures aimed at bringing the hospital medical staffing structure into balance over the next 10 earss' This initiative has been endorsed by the Central Committee for Hospital Medical Services and the Hospital Junior StaffCommittee. If the proposals are agreed implementation will start on 1 January 1987 and will result in major changes to the junior hospital doctors' career structure. This stud...

Specialist geriatric medical assessment for patients discharged from hospital acute assessment units: randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of specialist geriatric medical management on the outcomes of at risk older people discharged from acute medical assessment units. DESIGN Individual patient randomised controlled trial comparing intervention with usual care. SETTING Two hospitals in Nottingham and Leicester, UK. PARTICIPANTS 433 patients aged 70 or over who were discharged within 72 hours ...

Acute hospital medical staffing during the night shift.

There has been little or no attempt to define the need for 24-hour medical cover, nor its appropriateness in acute hospitals, despite the great cost implications and the question of the quality of that care. This study examined the medical activity during the 'night shift' in an acute hospital. There were an average of 2.59 calls per night, most from the emergency department (247/475) and gener...

Hospital medical staffing: our hope for years to come.