Nursing Care and Patient Outcomes: International Evidence

Overview

Journal Enferm Clin

Specialties General Medicine
Nursing

Date 2008 Jan 26

PMID 18218265

Citations 9

Authors

Robyn B Cheung

Linda H Aiken

Sean P Clarke

Douglas M Sloane

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Abstract

Countries across the globe are experiencing nursing shortages. In hospitals, supportive practice environments have positive effects on both nurse and patient outcomes. However, these relationships have been established primarily in the US. International studies of the effects of nurse staffing levels and the practice environment on nurse outcomes and the quality of care mirror the findings from the US, thus raising these issues to the international level. The solutions that have been successful in the US for improving the practice environment and patient outcomes are solutions that should be successful in any country, thus putting them on a global scale. The Magnet hospital program is one model that has been shown to improve nurse and patient outcomes and is one solution to the shortage of hospital nurses.

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