Association of Nurse Workload With Missed Nursing Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Quality improvement initiatives demonstrate the contribution of reliable nursing care to gains in clinical and safety outcomes in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs); when core care is missed, outcomes can worsen.

Objective

To evaluate the association of NICU nurse workload with missed nursing care.

Design, setting, and participants

A prospective design was used to evaluate associations between shift-level workload of individual nurses and missed care for assigned infants from March 1, 2013, through January 31, 2014, at a 52-bed level IV NICU in a Midwestern academic medical center. A convenience sample of registered nurses who provided direct patient care and completed unit orientation were enrolled. Nurses reported care during each shift for individual

SUBMITTER: Tubbs-Cooley HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583427 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature