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Missed nursing care, nurse staffing levels and patient safety outcomes in low‐income country acute care settings: An observational study.
- Source :
- International Journal of Nursing Practice (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.); Feb2022, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Aims: The aim of this study was to measure the level of missed nursing care and determine its relationship with nurse staffing and patient safety outcomes in acute care settings in Ethiopia. Background: Missed nursing care in hospitals increases the likelihood of patient adverse events, complications, disability and death. However, little is known about the level of missed nursing care and its impact on patient outcomes in low‐income countries. Methods: An observational study was conducted comprising of a survey of nurses at two time points (n = 74 and 80, respectively) and a medical record review of 517 patients in four units across two hospitals between September 2018 and March 2019. Results: The level of missed nursing care in the study units was very high. The hospital type and hours nurses worked during the last week were significantly associated with missed nursing care. A unit increase in missed nursing care score increased the incidence of adverse patient outcomes by 10%. Conclusion: There was a higher level of missed nursing care in the study units compared with similar studies from high‐income countries. Higher level of missed nursing care was significantly associated with higher incidence of adverse patient safety outcomes. Summary statement: What is already known about this topic? Literature shows nurses working in acute care miss important nursing care activities mainly due to lack of time to perform those nursing care activities. What this paper adds? The level of missed nursing care in the low‐income country acute care units of the study hospitals is very high compared with other settings.Higher levels of missed nursing care were statistically associated with increase adverse patient safety outcomes, whereas lower levels of missed nursing care were statistically associated with improved patient outcomes. The implication of this paper Hospital administrators and nurse managers should work towards reducing missed nursing care through regular monitoring of nursing practice and improved staffing levels.Mechanisms to improve staffing and resource are required to enable nurses enough time to perform all essential nursing care activities for patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- RISK factors of pneumonia
EVALUATION of medical care
EXPERIMENTAL design
PILOT projects
RELIABILITY (Personality trait)
NURSING
MIDDLE-income countries
SCIENTIFIC observation
SAMPLE size (Statistics)
ANALYSIS of variance
CONFIDENCE intervals
CROSS-sectional method
NURSING specialties
INDEPENDENT variables
URINARY tract infections
PRESSURE ulcers
MULTIVARIATE analysis
CROSS infection
REGRESSION analysis
SELF medication
NOSOCOMIAL infections
HOSPITAL mortality
T-test (Statistics)
HOSPITAL nursing staff
CRITICAL care medicine
LOW-income countries
HOSPITAL wards
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
WORKING hours
STATISTICAL correlation
DATA analysis software
LOGISTIC regression analysis
ODDS ratio
PATIENT safety
DISEASE risk factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13227114
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Nursing Practice (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 155130980
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/ijn.13031