Poor Patient Care Outcomes and Nurse Job Outcomes Associated With Unfavorable Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department Nurse Work Environments: Implications for Critical Care Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Efforts to improve critical care outcomes are traditionally focused on intensive care unit (ICU) work environments, despite the reality that nurses in emergency departments (EDs) also deliver critical care. EDs and ICUs in the same hospitals tend to be differently resourced and may have different work environments as assessed by nurses. The objective of this study was to assess similarities in ED and ICU nurse work environment evaluations and associations with patient care and nurse job outcomes.

Methods

Cross-sectional evaluation of ED and ICU nurses in 169 hospitals from a study of nurses licensed to work in New York and Illinois hospitals in the United States, the 2021 RN4CAST-New York/Illinois (NY/IL) survey, was administered electronically. K-means clustering

SUBMITTER: Muir KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12372961 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature