Besides organizational factors and limitations, researchers Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot conducted a mixed method research study in 2011 at forty-two UHC affiliated nonprofit teaching hospitals across the country. The researchers attempted to identify the relationship between low nurse staffing ratios on medical- surgical units with high patient turnover and patient outcomes (Park, Blegen, Spetz, Chapman, & De Groot, 2011). The relationship between staffing levels and the registered nurse’s failure to rescue were also explored. The study defined patient admissions, transfers, and discharges as turnover. Negative patient outcomes were defined as hospital acquired complications and included pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary
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Quantitative research conducted by Ausserhofer, Schubert, Desmedt, Blegen, De Geest, & Schwendimann (2013), aimed at identifying the relationship between nursing specific organizational factors and patient outcomes. In 2011, data compiled polled 1,630 registered nurses in surgical, medical, and medical-surgical units at thirty- five Swiss hospitals. Aspects of care included medication errors, patient falls, urinary tract infections, sepsis, pneumonia, pressure ulcer, and patient satisfaction were all measured through surveys received from participants. Nurses were asked to completed one survey per month and respond according to the number of perceived incidence of adverse effects to patient safety and care. Nurses that chose to participate had to the responsibility of being truthful in their responses to the survey questions, even if the truth was owning an error on their part. Participants were also asked to identify organizational limitations that hindered the quality of care that they were able to administer. Although, the study did not originally set out to address the issue of staffing, the constant theme based on staff responses an increase in nurse related error were found in times of decreased nurse and ancillary staff support on the units. It is difficult to ignore the participants’ admission to a lapse in quality care, but unfortunately this trend is all too common in the current state of
Quantitative research conducted by Ausserhofer, Schubert, Desmedt, Blegen, De Geest, & Schwendimann (2013), aimed at identifying the relationship between nursing specific organizational factors and patient outcomes. In 2011, data compiled polled 1,630 registered nurses in surgical, medical, and medical-surgical units at thirty- five Swiss hospitals. Aspects of care included medication errors, patient falls, urinary tract infections, sepsis, pneumonia, pressure ulcer, and patient satisfaction were all measured through surveys received from participants. Nurses were asked to completed one survey per month and respond according to the number of perceived incidence of adverse effects to patient safety and care. Nurses that chose to participate had to the responsibility of being truthful in their responses to the survey questions, even if the truth was owning an error on their part. Participants were also asked to identify organizational limitations that hindered the quality of care that they were able to administer. Although, the study did not originally set out to address the issue of staffing, the constant theme based on staff responses an increase in nurse related error were found in times of decreased nurse and ancillary staff support on the units. It is difficult to ignore the participants’ admission to a lapse in quality care, but unfortunately this trend is all too common in the current state of