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Nurse staffing cuts to save money might adversely affect patient outcomes. An increased emphasis on bachelor's education for nurses could reduce preventable hospital deaths.

Did you know that when it comes to prescribing medication, nurses and pharmacists can do it just as effectively as doctors can?

Objectives To determine the association of hospital nursing skill mix with patient mortality, patient ratings of their care and indicators of quality of care. Design Cross-sectional patient discharge...

Objectives Health systems worldwide are faced with the challenge of adequately staffing their hospital services. Much of the current research and subsequent policy has been focusing on nurse staffing...

Nicola Ranger reflects on the outcome of the RCN’s first ever safe staffing summit, seeing hope in a future the nursing profession must fight for.

Proposed Policy Changes That Would Prevent an Estimated 1,155 Unnecessary Hospital Patient Deaths Annually in Pennsylvania

In healthcare, leadership is decisive in influencing the quality of care1 and the performance of hospitals.2 How staff are treated significantly influences care provision and organisational perform...

In December, district nursing teams continued to visit housebound patients, and winter conditions me...

Dr Naomi Klepacz & Professor Jane Ball (School of Health Sciences, University of Southampton)

Background Workforce studies often identify burnout as a nursing ‘outcome’. Yet, burnout itself—what constitutes it, what factors contribute to its development, and what the wider consequences are...

Please subscribe here: @RCNonline In December 2023, we brought together global nursing workforce experts and senior nurses across the UK to agree a vision ...

This Medical News article discusses US initiatives to improve health care worker well-being as burnout and intent to leave to medicine reach record levels.

To sustain Canada’s nursing workforce as we enter a state of increasing global nursing shortage, there is an urgent need to critically examine the current conditions surrounding professional practice...

A shortage of registered nurses cannot be ameliorated by increasing reliance on support workers, says RCN Fellow, Professor Jane Ball.

Poor staffing means poor care, and poor care costs taxpayers more.

After an historic year leading the world’s largest nursing union, RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen addressed members at our annual conference, sharing her reflections on the courage...

Objective To determine the association between daily levels of registered nurse (RN) and nursing assistant staffing and hospital mortality. Design This is a retrospective longitudinal observational...

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Minimum nurse-to-patient ratio policies are a feasible approach to improve nurse staffing and patient outcomes with good return on investment.

More nurses and higher education levels - not a change in values - are needed if nursing in Britain is to regain its world-leading status.

The biggest threat to the NHS’s existence is its workforce crisis. And, although modern healthcare is a team venture reliant on interdisciplinary working, nursing is the NHS’s most numerous, visible,...

Aims To use nurses' descriptions of what would have improved their working lives during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK. Design Analysis of free-text responses from a cross-secti...

Universities often fail to acknowledge the distinctive career path that nurse academics take. But without better support, we will lose important expertise

More patients die if there are fewer nurses available – so the UK must resolve its current shortage.

Universities often fail to acknowledge the distinctive career path that nurse academics take. But without better support, we will lose important expertise

Many in practice have welcomed the potential of those training in the new roles to fill gaps in the ...

Background Nurses, midwives and paramedics comprise over half of the clinical workforce in the UK National Health Service and have some of the highest prevalence of psychological ill health. This...

How Come We Don't Have An 'International Doctors Day'?

This cross-sectional study of nurses in New York and Illinois examines the major contributing factors to nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021.

Background Workforce studies often identify burnout as a nursing ‘outcome’. Yet, burnout itself—what constitutes it, what factors contribute to its development, and what the wider consequences are...

At Patient Safety Learning, we believe that staff safety is intrinsically linked to patient safety.

The safety and mental health needs of nurses working during the coronavirus pandemic must be pla...

Objective To examine the impact of nurse staffing on patient-perceived quality of nursing care. We differentiate nurse staffing levels and nursing skill mix as two facets of nurse staffing and use a...

This cross-sectional study of nurses in New York and Illinois examines the major contributing factors to nurses ending health care employment between 2018 and 2021.

This cohort study examines associations of nursing team composition with the risk of death among adult patients with acute hospital admission in England.

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