Safe staffing levels

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1. Cost-effectiveness of eliminating hospital understaffing by nursing staff: a retrospective longitudinal study and economic evaluation (29 April 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, Yesterday at 12:10

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2. RCN: Registered nurse staffing levels for patient safety, care quality and cost effectiveness (7 May 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, Yesterday at 11:50

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3. Royal College of Nursing: Registered nurse staffing levels for patient safety, care quality and cost effectiveness (7 May 2025)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 May

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   • 16 May

4. BMJ Editorial: Staff retention and mortality (20 November 2024)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 21 November, 2024

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   • 21 November, 2024

5. Nurse understaffing associated with adverse outcomes for surgical admissions (24 September 2024)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 24 September, 2024

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   • 24 September, 2024

6. Nursing team composition and mortality following acute hospital admission (19 August 2024)

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   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 August, 2024

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   • 29 August, 2024

7. Redeployment: A patient safety issue (11 February 2024)

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   By Patient Safety Learning, 14 February, 2024

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   • 14 February, 2024

8. London Eye: Patient harm? ‘Definitely’

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 8 February, 2024

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   • 8 February, 2024

9. APIC staffing calculator

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   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 January, 2024

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   • 16 January, 2024

10. National Nurses United: National safe staffing ratios

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 January, 2024

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    • 10 January, 2024

11. Royal College of Nursing: Safety critical red lines (15 December 2023)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 January, 2024

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    • 4 January, 2024

12. Community Hospitals Association: Resource pack on safer staffing (13 October 2023)

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      • Community care
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 16 October, 2023

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    • 16 October, 2023

13. Why occupational health should be universally accessible (6 June 2023)

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 4 July, 2023

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    • 4 July, 2023

14. The mythbuster: Calls for more NHS staff are often misleading and dangerous

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    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 5 June, 2023

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    • 5 June, 2023

15. Nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies (October 2022)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 May, 2023

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    • 19 May, 2023

16. Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again? (6 December 2022)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 May, 2023

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    • 13 May, 2023

17. The impact of adding assistants in nursing to acute care hospital ward nurse staffing on adverse patient outcomes: An analysis of administrative health data (November 2016)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 May, 2023

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18. Staffing on wards: Making decisions about healthcare staffing (16 March 2019)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 May, 2023

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    • 6 May, 2023

19. Determining acute nurse staffing: a hermeneutic review of an evolving science (30 March 2019)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 12 April, 2023

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    • 12 April, 2023

20. Recover to rebuild: Investing in the nursing workforce for health system effectiveness (International Council of Nurses, March 2023)

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      • Global health
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      • Pandemic
      • Secondary impact

    By Patient Safety Learning, 31 March, 2023

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    • 31 March, 2023

21. Roy Lilley eLetter - Helpless (12 December 2022)

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    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 December, 2022

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22. RCN - Striking a balance: patient safety during industrial action (20 July 2022)

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      • Staff engagement
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    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 October, 2022

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    • 7 October, 2022

23. What difference have safe staffing policies made to hospitals in the NHS? (February 2020)

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      • England
      • Nurse
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    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 27 September, 2022

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    • 27 September, 2022

24. Nurse staffing and patient care quality and safety (Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 August, 2022

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25. “More is not always better”: Park's sweet spot theory-driven implementation strategy for viable optimal safe nurse staffing policy in practice (11 July 2022)

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    By Patient Safety Learning, 5 August, 2022

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    • 5 August, 2022