BACKGROUND Among patients in skilled nursing facilities for post-acute care, increased registered nurse, total licensed staff, and nurse assistant staffing is associated with a decreased rate of hospital transfer for selected diagnoses. However, the cost-effectiveness of increasing staffing to recommended levels is unknown. METHODS Using a Markov cohort simulation, we estimated the incrementa...

We present cna, a package for performing Coincidence Analysis (CNA). CNA is a configurational comparative method for the identification of complex causal dependencies—in particular, causal chains and common cause structures—in configurational data. After a brief introduction to the method’s theoretical background and main algorithmic ideas, we demonstrate the use of the package by means of an a...

In response to the Canadian Nurses Association National Expert Commission’s Call to Action (NEC 2012), a focused meeting of nurse leaders was convened at (NEC) Dalhousie University in early November 2012. Hosted by the School of Nursing in collaboration with CNA, the purpose of the Think Tank was to initiate dialogue on how to respond to the report’s recommendation regarding reform of Canadian ...

On November 29 and 30, 2012, CNA honored National Military Family Appreciation Month by holding a conference in Washington, D.C. titled “Promoting the Resilience of Military Children through Effective Programs.” The conference provided a two-day forum for leaders from the scientific and service communities to advance the goal of helping military children and their families cope with the psychol...

Introduction In June 2002, the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) released a revised study projecting a shortage of 78,000 nurses in Canada by 2011 (Ryten 2002). This projected nursing shortage, along with the increasing average age of nurses, led The Ottawa Hospital to actively plan and strategize the sourcing of Registered Nurse (RN) positions. Annual workforce planning is followed by the deve...

AIMS This mapping study describes current or planned introduction of assistant practitioner roles in English National Health Service Acute Hospital Trusts. BACKGROUND In the last decade there has been a growth in nursing support workforce numbers and their scope of practice. An important United Kingdom support worker development is the Assistant Practitioner role. METHOD A national census w...

WITH THE move of nurse education into the higher education sector in the late 1980s, and the resultant establishment of supernumerary status for student nurses, nursing faced the prospect of a shortage of personnel and skills. One attempt to fill this gap was the introduction of the health care assistant (HCA), an unqualified nursing assistant who would receive work-based training, designed to ...

QUALIFIED NURSES may be more vulnerable than they think. It is not easy to justify the need for a qualified nurse rather than a healthcare assistant (HCA) to help on the next shift.

983 Christopher Fountain, RN, OCN®, is a staff nurse; Lindi Goins, RN, OCN®, is the assistant head nurse; Molly Hartman, RN, OCN®, Nancy Phelps, RN, OCN®, and Debra Scoles, RN, OCN®, are staff nurses; and Victoria Hays, RN, MN, CNS, APRN-BC, is a clinical nurse specialist, all in the oncology unit of Providence Portland Medical Center in Oregon. Mention of specific products and opinions related...