Quick Read on Safe Staffing
These "one minute essays" have been designed to give you a quick overview of the topic area—perfect for that quick read in the midst of your busy day. Each essay includes where you can go for further information if you choose.
Resources
- Safe Staffing Victories on the State Level
- Nurses are an increasingly potent force in shaping federal and state policies that promote patient safety and quality health services.
- National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)®
- For more than a decade, research has shown significant links between safe staffing levels and positive outcomes for hospitalized patients. Nursing-sensitive indicators, such as those found in the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI)®, offer prime measures of the nursing workforce, processes of care and patient outcomes.
- What are the ANA Safe Staffing Principles?
- Given the strong evidence supporting positive links between safe staffing and quality patient care, the ANA published the Principles on Safe Staffing and the Utilization Guide to the Principles on Safe Staffing to guide the development of valid and reliable nurse staffing plans.
- Safe Staffing for School Nurses
- Safe staffing is a priority issue for nurses in all practice settings – and for one vital reason: to ensure the delivery of safe, high quality health care. The nation’s public schools represent one such setting that faces serious compromises to student safety and wellbeing due to a shortage of school nurses.
- ANA's Support for Safe Staffing
- For more than a decade, studies have pointed to a number of positive outcomes for patients and nurses when safe staffing plans are established in hospitals and other health care settings.