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.
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    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.