Strong evidence reveals that nurses play a critical role in ensuring patient safety while providing direct patient care (Malliaris, Phillips, & Bakerjian, 2021). Nurses are frontline health care …

It's a paradox without an easy solution, but healthcare organizations shouldn’t let staffing shortages affect patient safety. Luckily, patient safety and incident management technology …

The purpose of this chapter is to summarize and discuss the state of the science examining the impact of nurse staffing in hospitals and other health care organizations on patient care …

Nurse staffing levels are critical to optimizing quality of patient care, improving care outcomes, and long-term cost containment. In the face of nurse staffing shortages, an aging population …

Burnout and staffing shortages can lead to critical errors in patient care, but technology and teamwork can alleviate those affects. Staffing shortages in healthcare facilities have become …

Short staffing can lead to a frightening array of consequences, from increased medical errors and overwhelmed, burned-out staff to compromised patient outcomes and financial strains on …

Consistent staffing shortages have troubling consequences for patient health outcomes. In addition, nurses report negative feelings about being overworked and overwhelmed. The …

We’ll help you start to answer this critical question by reviewing the impact of nurse staffing on patient care, assessing nursing supply and demand, hearing what nurses say about the crisis, …

America’s persistent nursing shortage will continue to plague hospitals, and it's the patients and overworked nurses, along with physicians and other clinicians, who are impacted. These …

Research has shown that less time and resources for each nurse due to low staffing can negatively impact patient safety. Even with efforts to minimize the effects of short staffing in …