Job dissatisfaction among nurses contributes to costly labor disputes, turnover, and risk to
patients. Examining survey data from 95,499 nurses, we found much higher job dissatisfaction …

Background Austerity measures and health-system redesign to minimise hospital expenditures
risk adversely affecting patient outcomes. The RN4CAST study was designed to inform …

Background: Provisions of the Affordable Care Act that increase hospitals’ financial
accountability for preventable readmissions have heightened interest in identifying system-level …

Importance The literature suggests that hospitals with better nursing work environments
provide better quality of care. Less is known about value (cost vs quality). Objectives To test …

Clinical nursing expertise is central to quality patient care. Research on factors that contribute
to expertise has focused largely on individual nurse characteristics to the exclusion of …

Patient satisfaction is receiving greater attention as a result of the rise in pay-for-performance
(P4P) and the public release of data from the Hospital Consumer Assessment of …

The important goals of Magnet® hospitals are to create supportive professional nursing
care environments. A recently published paper found little difference in work environments …

Background Substantial evidence indicates that patient outcomes are more favourable in
hospitals with better nurse staffing. One policy designed to achieve better staffing is minimum …

Background: Although there is evidence that hospitals recognized for nursing excellence—Magnet
hospitals—are successful in attracting and retaining nurses, it is uncertain whether …

Introduction Efforts to enact nurse staffing legislation often lack timely, local evidence about
how specific policies could directly impact the public’s health. Despite numerous studies …