Workforce planning in health services is vital to ensuring that the right number of trained professionals are available to meet population needs, especially in the context of growing and ageing ...

A high workload for nurses was associated with increased odds of missed care of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a cross-sectional study suggested. A shift-level staffing ratio of ...

The charge nurse is responsible for creating daily nurse/patient assignments, which are informed by the location of the patient within a unit and the clinical judgment of the charge nurse. Assignments ...

The results of this survey suggest that nearly all respondent community hospitals engaged in some form of workload or productivity monitoring. Productivity data are typically collected and reported on ...

This chapter provides highlights of the final workshop session, which Cheryl Paullin (committee member) began by recapping some of the key points from the earlier sessions. As an aid to the final ...