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Safety in more than just numbers

27 November 2014

Nursing Management

Feature

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is developing a series of evidence-based guidelines on safe staffing with a focus on nursing and...

Healthcare assistants in the children’s intensive care unit

10 February 2009

Paediatric Nursing

General

Recruiting and retaining qualified nurses for children’s intensive care units is becoming more difficult because of falling numbers of recruits into the child branch...

Managing reliance on temporary agency staff

01 March 2016

Nursing Management

Feature

Amid spiralling agency staff costs, in November 2015 Monitor and the Trust Development Authority placed caps on the hourly rate that NHS trusts can pay agency staff,...

An overview of the challenges facing care homes in the UK

Nursing Older People

evidence & practice

Care homes are an increasingly important part of the UK's healthcare system. Despite their importance, particularly in providing care for older people with complex...

Analysing the implementation and effects of safe staffing policies in acute hospitals

05 May 2020

Nursing Management

Workforce

Several high-profile inquiries and reports, including the Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry, by Sir Robert Francis QC, have...

Managing missing and erroneous data in nurse staffing surveys

30 March 2023

Nurse Researcher

Data handling

Background Analysis can be problematic in research when data are missing or erroneous. Various methods are available for managing missing and erroneous data, but...

Developing a model for quantifying staffing requirements in the post-anaesthesia care unit

04 July 2023

Nursing Management

Staffing

Nurse managers in charge of a post-anaesthesia care unit (PACU) face the task of optimising staffing levels and must be able to justify staffing needs to the wider...

Implementation of a ward staff self-rostering system: improving morale and retention

20 April 2021

Nursing Management

Staffing

Staff morale is an important factor in maintaining and improving nurse recruitment and retention. Evidence suggests more flexible working patterns can improve...

How safe staffing can improve emergency nursing: time to cut the Gordian knot

26 November 2019

Emergency Nurse

Professional issues

The phrase ‘cut the Gordian knot’ describes a bold and direct solution to a complicated problem. Nursing presence has been defined as nurses’ ability to pay...

Changing the focus of adverse incident reporting in mental health nursing

05 December 2023

Mental Health Practice

Care safety

While overall incident reporting in mental health settings has increased in recent years, so too has the frequency of self-harm and aggression towards patients and...

30 September 2024 / Vol 36 issue 5

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