Safe staffing

Safe staffing for nursing in emergency departments: evidence review.

OBJECTIVE Getting staffing levels wrong in hospitals is linked to excess mortality and poor patient experiences but establishing the safe nurse staffing levels in the emergency department (ED) is challenging because patient demand is so variable. This paper reports a review conducted for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) which sought to identify the research evidence ...

Senior nurses convince MPs to back campaign for safe staffing.

Members of the Commons health committee were among MPs and peers who signed up to a campaign on safe staffing levels at a high-profile event held by senior nurses in the Houses of Parliament last week.

Are NHS trusts finally getting the message about safe staffing levels?

orking Conditions and Patient Safety : Safe Staffing in Maine ’ s Hospitals

Introduction A growing body of research is now documenting how serious problems in the work environments of nursing care in American hospitals are posing a threat to patient safety, as well as contributing to shortages of nurses working in hospital settings and in greater job stress and burnout among nurses. A major factor in this picture, according to a major report by the National Institute o...

AORN Position Statement on perioperative safe staffing and on-call practices.