Nursing workload, nurse staffing methodologies and tools: A systematic scoping review and discussion.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The importance of nurse staffing levels in acute hospital wards is widely recognised but evidence for tools to determine staffing requirements although extensive, has been reported to be weak. Building on a review of reviews undertaken in 2014, we set out to give an overview of the major approaches to assessing nurse staffing requirements and identify recent evidence in order to address unanswered questions including the accuracy and effectiveness of tools.

Methods

We undertook a systematic scoping review. Searches of Medline, the Cochrane Library and CINAHL were used to identify recent primary research, which was reviewed in the context of conclusions from existing reviews.

Results

The published literature is extensive and describes a variety of uses for t

SUBMITTER: Griffiths P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7086229 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature