OBJECTIVE To enhance understanding of how nurse staffing relates to unassisted falls by exploring non-linear associations between unassisted fall rates and levels of registered nurse (RN) and non-RN staffing on 5 nursing unit types, thereby enabling managers to improve patient safety by making better-informed decisions about staffing. DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of routinely collected dat...

Many U.S. nursing homes have serious quality problems, in part, because of inadequate levels of nurse staffing. This commentary focuses on two issues. First, there is a need for higher minimum nurse staffing standards for U.S. nursing homes based on multiple research studies showing a positive relationship between nursing home quality and staffing and the benefits of implementing higher minimum...

PURPOSE This study reviews staffing standards from the 50 states and the District of Columbia to determine if these standards are related to nursing home staffing levels. DESIGN AND METHODS Rules and regulations for states' nursing home staffing standards were obtained for the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Nurse staffing data were obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

BACKGROUND Hospitals are increasingly adopting 24-hour intensivist physician staffing as a strategy to improve intensive care unit (ICU) outcomes. However, the degree to which nighttime intensivists are associated with improvements in the quality of ICU care is unknown. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study involving ICUs that participated in the Acute Physiology and Chronic Healt...

this study investigated aligning organizational culture and staffing process of human resource management in the insurance company of iran. this study examined the impact of organizational culture types in quinn competing values framework model on staffing process of human resource management. statistical population encompassed 320 members of supervisors, middle managers, and senior managers in...

This paper describes innovative research that quantified relationships between nurse staffing and nurse-sensitive patient outcomes. Building on existing studies, the research added controls for patient workload, analyzed data at a daily-level of detail and employed rigorous multi-site data control. A key finding in the study was that staffing to effectively meet patient workload demands mitigat...