Nurse absenteeism and workload: Negative effect on restraint use, incident reports and mortality

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 673-681

  Unruh, Lynn ^a,b   Joseph, Lindell ^c   Strickland, Margaret ^c  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c FLORIDA HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Incident forms; Nurse absenteeism; Nurse patient relationships; Quality of care; Retrospective analysis; Staffing records; Work organization

Indexed keywords

ABSENTEEISM; ARTICLE; EXERCISE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING; NURSING CARE; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK MANAGEMENT; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WORKLOAD;

ABSENTEEISM; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 100 TO 299; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING CARE; NURSING SERVICE, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK MANAGEMENT; WORKLOAD;

EID: 36549059719     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: 13652648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04459.x     Document Type: Article

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