RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety

Sasso, Loredana; Bagnasco, Annamaria; Petralia, Paolo; Scelsi, Silvia; Zanini, Milko; Catania, Gianluca; Aleo, Giuseppe; Dasso, Nicoletta; Rossi, Silvia; Watson, Roger; Sermeus, Walter; Icardi, Giancarlo; Aiken, Linda H.

Abstract

Some authors argue that it is not longer ethically correct to expose hospitalized patients to death risks associated with understaffing (Nickitas, 2014). Also the Care Quality Commission (CQC, an independent regulator of all health and social care services in England) has included staffing levels as one of the auditing quality standards when inspecting hospitals and health centres. The Royal College of Nursing, in its document Mandatory Nurse Staffing Levels (RCN, 2012), clearly defined which nurse staffing levels should be adopted by policy makers to ensure the provision of safe care. However, even in the UK where such pressure exists there are no legally defined nurse staffing levels.

Citation

Sasso, L., Bagnasco, A., Petralia, P., Scelsi, S., Zanini, M., Catania, G., …Aiken, L. H. (2018). RN4CAST@IT-Ped: Nurse staffing and children's safety. Journal of advanced nursing, 74(6), 1223-1225. https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13462

• Journal Article Type: Editorial
• Acceptance Date: Sep 27, 2017
• Online Publication Date: Oct 24, 2017
• Publication Date: 2018-06
• Deposit Date: Oct 14, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 27, 2018
• Journal: Journal of advanced nursing
• Print ISSN: 0309-2402
• Electronic ISSN: 1365-2648
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1223-1225
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.13462
• Keywords: General Nursing
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/474793
• Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jan.13462/full