Nursing staff in hospitals and nursing homes : is it adequate? / Gooloo S. Wunderlich, Frank A. Sloan, and Carolyne K. Davis, editors ; Committee on the Adequacy of Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Nursing Homes, Division of Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine.
Hospitals and nursing homes are responding to changes in the health care system by modifying staffing levels and the mix of nursing personnel. But do these changes endanger the quality of patient care? Do nursing staff suffer increased rates of injury, illness, or stress because of changing workplac...
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1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Review and recommendations
- Introduction
- Implications of population change
- Evolving health care scene
- Nursing personnel in a time of change
- Staffing and quality of care in hospitals
- Staffing and quality of care in nursing homes
- Staffing and work-related injuries and stress
- Epilogue.
- Appendix. Separate statement / James F. Blumstein
- Responses by Committee members.
- Part II. Resources for the study
- Study activities
- Written and oral testimony submitted to the Committee
- Site visits conducted by the Committee
- Statistical resources
- Commissioned papers
- Quality of care, organizational variables, and nurse staffing / Joyce A. Verran
- Professional nursing education: today and tomorrow / Angela Barron McBride
- Nursing staff and quality of care in nursing homes / Meridean Maas, Kathleen Buckwalter, Janet Specht
- Quality of care and nursing staff in nursing homes / Jean Johnson, C. McKeen Cowles, Samuel J. Simmens
- Nursing facility quality, staffing, and economic issues / Charlene A. Harrington
- Nursing injury, stress, and nursing care / Bonnie Rogers.