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Nurses’ reports of working conditions and hospital quality of care in 12 countries in Europe
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There was wide variation across countries in the percentages of hospital nurses that were bachelor's prepared, in patient to nurse average workloads, and skill mix, and dissatisfaction was pronounced with respect to wages, educational opportunities and opportunities for advancement.About:
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Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study
Linda H. Aiken,Douglas M. Sloane,Luk Bruyneel,Koen Van den Heede,Peter Griffiths,Reinhard Busse,Marianna Diomidous,Juha Kinnunen,Maria Kózka,Emmanuel Lesaffre,Matthew D. McHugh,María Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Anne Marie Rafferty,René Schwendimann,P. Anne Scott,Carol Tishelman,Theo van Achterberg,Walter Sermeus +17 more
TL;DR: Differences in patient to nurse ratios and nurses' educational qualifications in nine of the 12 RN4CAST countries with similar patient discharge data were associated with variation in hospital mortality after common surgical procedures, implying an increased emphasis on bachelor's education for nurses could reduce preventable hospital deaths.
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Nursing skill mix in European hospitals: cross-sectional study of the association with mortality, patient ratings, and quality of care
Linda H. Aiken,Douglas M. Sloane,Peter Griffiths,Anne Marie Rafferty,Luk Bruyneel,Matthew D. McHugh,Claudia B. Maier,Teresa Moreno-Casbas,Jane Ball,Dietmar Ausserhofer,Walter Sermeus +10 more
TL;DR: A bedside care workforce with a greater proportion of professional nurses is associated with better outcomes for patients and nurses, and reducing nursing skill mix by adding nursing associates and other categories of assistive nursing personnel without professional nurse qualifications may contribute to preventable deaths, erode quality and safety of hospital care and contribute to hospital nurse shortages.
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Unfinished nursing care, missed care, and implicitly rationed care: State of the science review.
TL;DR: Key limitations of the science include the threat of common method/source bias, a lack of transparency regarding the use of combined samples and secondary analysis, inconsistency in the reporting format for unfinished care prevalence, and a paucity of intervention studies.
Importance of work environments on hospital outcomes in nine countries
Linda H. Aiken,Douglas M. Sloane,Sean P. Clarke,Lusine Poghosyan,Eunhee Cho,Liming You,Mary Finlayson,Masako Kanai-Pak,Andyupin Aungsuroch +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of hospital work environments on hospital outcomes across multiple countries was determined to determine the effect the hospital work environment has on patient outcomes and nurse burnout and job dissatisfaction.
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Effect of transformational leadership on job satisfaction and patient safety outcomes
TL;DR: The findings provide support for managers' use of transformational leadership behaviors as a useful strategy in creating workplace conditions that promote better safety outcomes for patients and nurses.
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To Err Is Human Building a Safer Health System
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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.
Nurses' Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countriese ways in which nurses' work is structured have left nurses
Linda H. Aiken,Sean P. Clarke,Douglas M. Sloane,Reinhard Busse,Heather F. Clarke,Phyllis Giovannetti,Jennifer Hunt,Anne Marie Rafferty,Judith Shamian +8 more
TL;DR: Reports from 43,000 nurses from more than 700 hospitals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Germany in 1998-1999 suggest core problems in work design and workforce management threaten the provision of care.
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Nurses’ Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countries
Linda H. Aiken,Sean P. Clarke,Douglas M. Sloane,Julie Sochalski,Reinhard Busse,Heather F. Clarke,Phyllis Giovannetti,Jennifer Hunt,Anne Marie Rafferty,Judith Shamian +9 more
TL;DR: The current nursing shortage, high hospital nurse job dissatisfaction, and reports of uneven quality of hospital care are not uniquely American phenomena. as mentioned in this paper presents reports from 43,000 nurses from more than 700 hospitals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, and Germany in 1998-1999.
To Err is Human
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