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Hospital nursing, care quality, and patient satisfaction: Cross-sectional surveys of nurses and patients in hospitals in China and Europe
Liming You,Linda H. Aiken,Douglas M. Sloane,Ke Liu,Guo-ping He,Yan Hu,Xiaolian Jiang,Xiao-han Li,Xiao-mei Li,Hua-ping Liu,Shao-Mei Shang,Ann Kutney-Lee,Walter Sermeus +12 more
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Nursing is important in quality and safety of hospital care and in patients' perceptions of their care, and expanding the number of baccalaureate-prepared nurses hold promise for improving hospital outcomes in China.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 310 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surgical nursing & Primary nursing.read more
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Effects of perceived workplace politics in hospitals on nurses' behavioural intentions in Ghana.
TL;DR: Evidence-based best practices in nursing management centred on the creation of an enabling environment for nurses to participate in decision-making should be given critical attention.
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Nurse qualifications and perceptions of patient safety and quality of care in South Africa.
TL;DR: Investigation of professional nurses' perceptions of patient safety and quality of care in South Africa finds qualifications had no correlation with perceptions of patients safety andquality of care, although perceptions may serve as a valid indicator of patient outcomes.
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The health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting in South Africa
Laetitia C. Rispel,Duane Blaauw +1 more
TL;DR: A combination of strong nursing leadership, effective management, and consultation with and buy-in from front-line nurses is needed to counteract the potential negative health system consequences of agency nursing and moonlighting among South African nurses.
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Assessing oncology nurses' attitudes towards death and the prevalence of burnout: A cross-sectional study.
Qiaohong Guo,Ruishuang Zheng +1 more
TL;DR: Death education and death related training including discussion of personal attitudes towards death should be part of nursing education programs, which would in turn prevent oncology nurses from burnout.
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Creating positive practice environments in a primary health care setting.
TL;DR: In a primary health care setting, it is important to train, appoint, and support managers who in turn will be able to train and support their personnel, as this enhances teamwork and a culture of teaching-learning and improves the competence of all staff.
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Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century
TL;DR: Analyzing health care organizations as complex systems, Crossing the Quality Chasm also documents the causes of the quality gap, identifies current practices that impede quality care, and explores how systems approaches can be used to implement change.
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Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States.
Linda H. Aiken,Walter Sermeus,Koen Van den Heede,Douglas M. Sloane,Reinhard Busse,Martin McKee,Luk Bruyneel,Anne Marie Rafferty,Peter Griffiths,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Carol Tishelman,Anne Scott,Tomasz Brzostek,Juha Kinnunen,René Schwendimann,Maud Heinen,Dimitris Zikos,Ingeborg Strømseng Sjetne,Herbert L. Smith,Ann Kutney-Lee +19 more
TL;DR: In European hospitals, improvement of hospital work environments might be a relatively low cost strategy to improve safety and quality in hospital care and to increase patient satisfaction.
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Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis
Lincoln C. Chen,Timothy G Evans,Sudhir Anand,Jo Ivey Boufford,Hilary Brown,Mushtaque Chowdhury,Marcos Cueto,Lola Dare,Gilles Dussault,Gijs Elzinga,Elizabeth Fee,Demissie Habte,Piya Hanvoravongchai,Marian Jacobs,Christoph Kurowski,Sarah Michael,Ariel Pablos-Mendez,Nelson K. Sewankambo,Giorgio Solimano,Barbara Stilwell,Alex de Waal,Suwit Wibulpolprasert +21 more
TL;DR: This analysis of the global workforce proposes that mobilisation and strengthening of human resources for health, neglected yet critical, is central to combating health crises in some of the world's poorest countries and for building sustainable health systems in all countries.
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Patients' Perception of Hospital Care in the United States
TL;DR: This portrait of patients' experiences in U.S. hospitals offers insights into areas that need improvement, suggests that the same characteristics of hospitals that lead to high nurse-staffing levels may be associated with better experiences for patients, and offers evidence that hospitals can provide both a high quality of clinical care and a good experience for the patient.
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Effects of nurse staffing and nurse education on patient deaths in hospitals with different nurse work environments.
Linda H. Aiken,Jeannie P. Cimiotti,Douglas M. Sloane,Herbert L. Smith,Linda Flynn,Donna Felber Neff +5 more
TL;DR: Although the positive effect of increasing percentages of Bachelors of Science in Nursing Degree nurses is consistent across all hospitals, lowering the patient-to-nurse ratios markedly improves patient outcomes in hospitals with good work environments, slightly improves them in hospitalswith average environments, and has no effect in hospitalsWith poor environments.
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