Nurse-Friendly Hospital Project

Meraviglia, Martha G; Grobe, Susan J.; Tabone, S; Wainwright, Mary; Shelton, Steve; Yu, Lydia; Jordan, C.B.

doi:10.1097/01.ncq.0000314728.65721.7c

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“…The nurse-friendly hospital criteria index, which is known as the Adapted Nursing Work Index-Revised (Adapted NWI-R), was prepared in 2008 by Meraviglia et al. [21] by reviewing the items of the Nursing Work Index–Revised (NWI-R) and the Practice Environment Scale and by matching the appropriate items for each nurse-friendly hospital criterion with the help of specialists. Adapted NWI-R consists of 30 items and 12 sub-criteria [21].…”

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“…The Texas Nurses Association defined nurse-friendly hospital criteria as tools for creating a supportive healthy/positive work environment for hospitals that do not meet the magnet hospital criteria. The nurse-friendly hospital criteria consist of twelve main items, namely, control over nursing practice, safety of work environment, presence of systems dealing with patient care, nurse orientation, qualification of head nurses, professional development, competitive wages, nurse respect/recognition, balanced lifestyle, zero tolerance to nurse abuse policy, middle management responsibility and quality initiatives [15,21]. Several of the Nursing Sensitive Criteria for the Selection of European Centres of Excellence of the European Federation of Nurses Associations refer to nurse-friendly hospital criteria [22].…”

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“…Several of the Nursing Sensitive Criteria for the Selection of European Centres of Excellence of the European Federation of Nurses Associations refer to nurse-friendly hospital criteria [22]. Arranging work environments according to these criteria enables hospitals to retain nurses and improve the quality of care [21]. Positive work environments also improve the quality of care and patient safety [3].…”

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Investigation of the working conditions of nurses in public hospitals on the basis of nurse-friendly hospital criteria

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2018

International Journal of Nursing Sciences

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Objective This descriptive study reveals how nurses working in public hospitals rated their practice environments with respect to nurse-friendly hospital criteria. Methods This study was conducted on 460 nurses volunteering to participate this study among 735 nurses working in inpatient wards of three public hospitals. Data were collected using a personal information form and the Adapted Nursing Work Index–Revised. Numbers, percentages, means and standard deviations, t -test and one-way variance analysis were used to evaluate the data. Results Among the nurse-friendly hospital criteria, ‘control of nursing practice’, ‘middle management accountability’ and ‘quality initiatives’ had the highest mean scores, and ‘competitive wages’ had the lowest mean score. The assessments of the nurses presented statistically significant differences with respect to personal and occupational variables. Conclusion The nurses found most of the nurse-friendly hospital criteria adequate, but they believed that several areas needed improvement.

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Investigation of the working conditions of nurses in public hospitals on the basis of nurse-friendly hospital criteria

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2018

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“… 4 A study in rural/small hospitals which implemented 12 nurse-friendly criteria to create a positive work environment observed positive changes in nurses’ perception of their work environment and improvements in quality of care in participating hospitals postintervention. 86 A hospital-based intervention study to change organisational culture on frequency of staff handwashing did not improve rates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two hospitals, but rates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci were significantly reduced in the intervention hospital during implementation. 90 A prominent interventional study, the UK Safer Patients Initiative, indicated that while there was a small improvement in staff attitudes to organisational climate in intervention hospitals, the intervention had no significant effect on patient safety outcomes, measured by the proportion of prescription errors, rates of adverse events and mortality rates.…”

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Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: systematic review

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Design and objectivesEvery organisation has a unique culture. There is a widely held view that a positive organisational culture is related to positive patient outcomes. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analyses statement, we systematically reviewed and synthesised the evidence on the extent to which organisational and workplace cultures are associated with patient outcomes.SettingA variety of healthcare facilities, including hospitals, general practices, pharmacies, military hospitals, aged care facilities, mental health and other healthcare contexts.ParticipantsThe articles included were heterogeneous in terms of participants. This was expected as we allowed scope for wide-ranging health contexts to be included in the review.Primary and secondary outcome measuresPatient outcomes, inclusive of specific outcomes such as pain level, as well as broader outcomes such as patient experience.ResultsThe search strategy identified 2049 relevant articles. A review of abstracts using the inclusion criteria yielded 204 articles eligible for full-text review. Sixty-two articles were included in the final analysis. We assessed studies for risk of bias and quality of evidence. The majority of studies (84%) were from North America or Europe, and conducted in hospital settings (89%). They were largely quantitative (94%) and cross-sectional (81%). The review identified four interventional studies, and no randomised controlled trials, but many good quality social science studies. We found that overall, positive organisational and workplace cultures were consistently associated with a wide range of patient outcomes such as reduced mortality rates, falls, hospital acquired infections and increased patient satisfaction.ConclusionsSynthesised, although there was no level 1 evidence, our review found a consistently positive association held between culture and outcomes across multiple studies, settings and countries. This supports the argument in favour of activities that promote positive cultures in order to enhance outcomes in healthcare organisations.

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“…Another review also described two studies demonstrating a positive impact of one year team oriented interventions (one of team discussion groups, the other undefined) on turnover [ 33 ]. Nursing practice models, for example nurse-managed units and unit-level self-management widely used by hospitals with Magnet accreditation in North America [ 43 - 45 ] were reported to have mixed evidence of effect [ 33 ].…”

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Interventions to Reduce Adult Nursing Turnover: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

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Background:Nurse turnover is an issue of concern in health care systems internationally. Understanding which interventions are effective to reduce turnover rates is important to managers and health care organisations. Despite a plethora of reviews of such interventions, strength of evidence is hard to determine.Objective:We aimed to review literature on interventions to reduce turnover in nurses working in the adult health care services in developed economies.Method:We conducted an overview (systematic review of systematic reviews) using the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, MEDLINE, EMBASE, Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, CINAHL plus and SCOPUS and forward searching. We included reviews published between 1990 and January 2015 in English. We carried out parallel blinded selection, extraction of data and assessment of bias, using the Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews. We carried out a narrative synthesis.Results:Despite the large body of published reviews, only seven reviews met the inclusion criteria. These provide moderate quality review evidence, albeit from poorly controlled primary studies. They provide evidence of effect of a small number of interventions which decrease turnover or increase retention of nurses, these being preceptorship of new graduates and leadership for group cohesion.Conclusion:We highlight that a large body of reviews does not equate with a large body of high quality evidence. Agreement as to the measures and terminology to be used together with well-designed, funded primary research to provide robust evidence for nurse and human resource managers to base their nurse retention strategies on is urgently required.

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Nurse-Friendly Hospital Project

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Investigation of the working conditions of nurses in public hospitals on the basis of nurse-friendly hospital criteria

Investigation of the working conditions of nurses in public hospitals on the basis of nurse-friendly hospital criteria

Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: systematic review

Interventions to Reduce Adult Nursing Turnover: A Systematic Review of Systematic Reviews

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