Variability, shift‐specific workloads and rationed care predictors of work satisfaction among Registered nurses providing acute care: A longitudinal study

Abstract

Nurses are a valuable resource in health care (Rivaz et al., 2017).Shortage of nurses is a problem faced worldwide, and it is often attributed to nurses' poor satisfaction with their overall nursing job and career opportunities, which leads to high attrition rates (Gardulf et al., 2008;Senek et al., 2020). Poor job satisfaction refers to the situation of emotional and physical fatigue accompanied by intrinsic demotivation and an intention of leaving the nursing job (Baljoon et al., 2018;Galletta et al., 2016). Despite the wide literature on understanding the determinants of nurses' job satisfaction and its associated nursing and patient care outcomes, to the best of our knowledge, there is no published research on nurses' shift-work satisfaction. Shift-work satisfaction refers to nurses' satisfaction

Weak Correlation Between Perceived and Measured Intensive Care Unit Nursing Workload

“…The reduced workload during the ICU night shift may be attributed to factors such as patient stability, decreased admissions, fewer diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, lower staffing levels, and enhanced monitoring systems. This difference is well known and has been described for different types of ICUs 22,23…”

“…This difference is well known and has been described for different types of ICUs. 22,23 Previously published studies have confirmed the feasibility of automated NEMS calculation, which is a simplified version of the TISS tool, demonstrating the increasing level of computation accuracy over the course of several decades. 14,16,24 This improved accuracy can be attributed to advancements in EHR data structure, the widespread adoption of integrated hardware-to-EHR data transmission protocols, the establishment of hospital-and environment-specific data repositories, and the utilization of contemporary data processing and extraction algorithms.…”