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Royal College of Nursing: Research proves we need safe staffing

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Professor Anne Marie Rafferty, Royal College of Nursing (RCN) President, has been involved in two decades of vital nursing workforce research. She explains in this interview for the RCN how the evidence could help us achieve safe staffing.

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The growing global evidence that Anne Marie and academic colleagues have gathered shows we need more nurses, with the right skills and support, if we want to reduce patient mortality and improve nurses’ wellbeing.  The RCN has used this research to create the aims of its safe staffing campaign and to tell all four UK governments what nurses and patients need now.

Royal College of Nursing: Research proves we need safe staffing https://www.rcn.org.uk/magazines/bulletin/2019/august/qa-research-behind-safe-staffing-aug-2019

Edited by Claire Cox

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