Nurse Staffing 101

Nurse Staffing 101 is a resource for RNs in developing effective and facility-specific approaches to optimal staffing decisions and plans. It covers the essential topics: Historical and political setting of safe staffing; Workplace, safety, and quality considerations; Examples of professional nursing practice models; Staffing at the organizational level in terms of workload variances; Current practices and possible solutions for determining and achieving the requisite staffing levels and measureable quality outcomes…To further assist RNs in staffing decision-making: a checklist based on ANA's Principles for Nurse Staffing and extensive references on the substantive body of evidence on the link between adequate nurse staffing and better patient outcomes.