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Overtime and Agency Nurse Staffing and Impacts on Patient Safety

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Nurse staffing remains a topic of intense continued interest, and for good reason.Everyone involved in hospital care has a sense that decreased nurse coverage and/or coverage with less well-prepared or less-experienced nursing personnel could potentially affect the quality of attention patients receive and, ultimately, influence outcomes.Pittman et al 1 present data from 70 hospitals before and after the peak of the COVID-19 crisis and examine the associations between nursing staffing parameters, notably overtime and the use of agency staff, in relation to a variety of patient safety
Language: English
Field: Nursing
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $3,000
OpenAlex ID: W4409089058
FWCI: 0.925
Cites: 7
Cited by: 1
Related to: 10