1. Nurse staffing impacts on patient and nurse outcomes.
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Rafferty, Anne Marie
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EVALUATION of medical care , *PSYCHOLOGICAL burnout , *HEALTH policy , *NATIONAL health services , *NURSE supply & demand , *HOSPITAL mortality , *HOSPITAL nursing staff , *WORKING hours , *PATIENT safety - Abstract
Although it's always been obvious that there has to be a link between nurse staffing levels and quality of patient care, it wasn't until the 1990s that research led by Linda Aiken in the United States (Aiken et al 1994) began to produce evidence of the nature of this relationship. I led the first study in England to establish whether or not similar links would be apparent in NHS hospitals, and its findings were reported in 2007 in the paper that underpins this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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