Background A nurse shortage in Canada is contributing to large amounts of paid/unpaid overtime and increased laborrelated expenditures. Shifting PID/SID patients from hospital-based IVIg to less labor-intensive home-based SCIg can improve their quality of life and treatment satisfaction [1] and may improve efficient allocation of nurse staff. The objectives for this study were to estimate the r...

Nurse caring for stroke patients involves multitasking as the condition itself is quite complex and challenging. In this light, many nurses, ranging from staff nurses to more advanced clinicians such as Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNSs) are directly involved in improving patient outcomes. NPs and CNSs are clinicians who have undertaken expert relevant educational p...

BACKGROUND High levels of work-related stress, burnout, job dissatisfaction, and poor health are common within the nursing profession. A comprehensive understanding of nurses' psychosocial work environment is necessary to respond to complex patients' needs. The aims of this study were threefold: (1) To retest and confirm two structural equation models exploring associations between practice env...

Nancy Thompson, RN, MS, AOCNS, is a clinical nurse specialist at Swedish Cancer Institute, Caroline Cogen, RN, BSN, is a staff nurse at Swedish Medical Center, Debra Forman, RN, BSN, OCN ®, is a supervisor in the Comprehensive Breast Center at Swedish Cancer Institute, and Sheryl Londerville, RN, BSN, OCN ®, is the radiation oncology charge nurse at Swedish Cancer Institute, all in Seattle, WA....

Workplace incivility (WI) continues to hamper professional nursing practice, patient care, and the health of nurses who encounter this phenomenon in their workplace. This article provides an exemplar of WI experienced by a new nurse when a more seasoned nurse uses humiliation, intimidation, and angry verbal abuse to accuse the novice nurse in the presence of coworkers and patients that she fail...

This paper discusses and analyses the tradeoff between the flexibility afforded with greater number of staff and the implied cost of employing extra staff in the context of the nurse-scheduling problem. If the number of staff is constant, our study allows quantification of the degree of pressure put on the staff resulting from the schedules that do not satisfy their preferences for shift alloca...

background: success in patient care and gain credit for the hospital depend on nurse staff competent and appetency, so they must be lead in suitable manners and it is nurse manager's duty that must have suitable personality and competency for powerful leadership. the purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of leadership and its relationship with extrovert/introvert personality. met...

Nursing staff is principally cyclically scheduled in various hospitals in Belgium. The employed cyclic schedules embody, however, only a weak reflection of the ultimate nurse rosters constructed for a specific month. In this paper we investigate the benefits of integrating nurse-specific characteristics in the cyclic scheduling approach. Moreover, we analyze to what extent these characteristics...

The objective of this study was to analyze hospital staff nurses' shift length, scheduling characteristics, and nurse reported safety and quality. A secondary analysis of a large nurse survey linked with hospital administrative data was conducted. More than 22 000 registered nurses' reports of shift length and scheduling characteristics were examined. Extended shift lengths were associated with...