The association between hospital nursing resource profiles and nurse and patient outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify and describe profiles of nursing resources and compare nurse and patient outcomes among the identified nursing resource profiles.

Background

Research linking nurse education, staffing, and the work environment treats these nursing resources as separate variables. Individual hospitals exhibit distinct profiles of these resources.

Methods

This cross-sectional secondary analysis used 2006 data from 692 hospitals in four states. Latent class mixture modelling was used to identify resource profiles. Regression models estimated the associations among the profiles and outcomes.

Results

Three profiles were identified (better, mixed and poor) according to their nursing resource levels. Hospitals with poor profiles were disproportionately mid-sized, for-

SUBMITTER: Lake ET 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8989670 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature