Purpose: To examine the relationship between average hospital length of stay (LOS) of nursing units and work demands perceived by nurses, and between work demands and nurses’ health and job outcomes. Design: A cross-sectional study using nurse survey data collected in a tertiary university hospital in Seoul, South Korea, in 2013 including 746 staff nurses working on 36 general, oncology, or…
Purpose: Emergency department (ED) crowding is a significant patient safety concern associated with poor quality of care. The purpose of this systematic review is to assess the relationship between ED crowding and patient outcomes. Design: We searched the Medline search engine and relevant emergency medicine and nursing journals for studies published in the past decade that pertained to ED cr…
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to characterize the concept knowing the patient as reflected in the contemporary nursing literature and to consider implications for nursing practice. Organizing Construct: A literature review was conducted to identify primary source publications concerned with knowing the patient within the nursing discipline. Methods: Cumulative Index to Nursing and…