Tuesday 13 August 2013

‘Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care

‘Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care This report aims to examine the nature and prevalence of care left undone by nurses in English National Health Service hospitals and to assess whether the number of missed care episodes is associated with nurse staffing levels and nurse ratings of the quality of nursing care and patient safety environment. It recommends that hospitals could use a nurse-rated assessment of ‘missed care’ as an early warning measure to identify wards with inadequate nurse staffing.

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