Nursing Care Disparities in Neonatal Intensive Care Units.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the variation across neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in missed nursing care in disproportionately black and non-black-serving hospitals. To analyze the nursing factors associated with missing nursing care.

Data sources/study setting

Survey of random samples of licensed nurses in four large U.S. states.

Study design

This was a retrospective, secondary analysis of 1,037 staff nurses in 134 NICUs classified into three groups based on their percent of infants of black race. Measures included the average patient load, individual nurses' patient loads, professional nursing characteristics, nurse work environment, and nursing care missed on the last shift.

Data collection

Survey data from a Multi-State Nursing Care and Patient Safety Study

SUBMITTER: Lake ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6056573 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature