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Content ArticleBMJ Quality & Safety, was to determine the association between daily levels of registered nurse (RN) and nursing assistant staffing and hospital mortality.
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Content ArticleMajor critical illness events, such as cardiopulmonary arrest and intensive care unit (ICU) transfer, disrupt workflow in a hospital ward. Other patients on the same ward may receive inadequate attention, especially if their care team is distracted by the emergency. Most studies have concentrated on patient-level variables associated with outcomes.This paper, published by JAMA, looks at the risk to ward occupants associated with patients on the same ward experiencing critical illness.
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Going home checklist for NHS staff
Martin Hogan posted an article in Motivating staff
It’s the little ripples from management that make a huge impact on safety for staff. If we don’t look after our staff, we won’t have anyone to safeguard our patients. It’s simple really! This going home checklist helps remind staff how important it is to look after their own mental health and well-being.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis paper, published in BMC Public Health, reports the results of a qualitative study that explored UK healthcare worker's (HCW) views about working during an influenza pandemic, in order to identify factors that might influence their willingness and ability to work and to identify potential sources of any perceived duty on HCWs to work.
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COVID-19: Provision of intensive care beds
Claire Cox posted an article in Data, research and statistics
This interview with intensivist and CEO of the the UK Sepsis Trust, Ron Daniels, shown on the Victoria Derbyshire programme, states the '... the UK cannot increase its ICU capacity "rapidly enough" to deal with levels of coronavirus patients'' Fears are growing for the safety of patients who will be contracting the virus, some of who will need intensive care, but there is not enough beds or trained staff to care for them appropriately.- Posted
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Content ArticleTo match the increasing demands that the coronavirus pandemic will place on critical care, new and flexible models of care are required. This document: states principles for deploying and redeploying staff to match the needs of a critical care department, independent of where this care is delivered sets out indicative staffing ratios and competencies suggests professional groups that could potentially form part of this new workforce during times of surge and super-surge. This guidance is correct at the time of publishing. However, as it is subject to updates, please use the hyperlinks within the document to confirm the information is accurate.
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Swimming with the tide, a blog by Sally Howard
Sally Howard posted an article in Leadership for patient safety
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Content ArticleThe Mental Health Optimal Staffing Tool (MHOST) was created, with the support of Health Education England, in recognition that there was no published, evidenced based mental health workforce tool which could be used in mental health hospitals. It has been developed alongside clinical leaders and workforce staff in mental health trusts and rigorously tested and validated.
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Content ArticleThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed an evidence-based guideline on safe staffing for nursing in inpatient mental health settings. This guideline is primarily for NHS provider organisations or other organisations that provide or commission inpatient mental health services for the NHS.
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