Category: Nursing Workforce

Nursing staffing levels in hospitals appear to be associated with improved patient outcomes. National guidance indicates that the triangulation of information from workforce planning and deployment technologies (WPTs; eg, the Safer Nursing Care Tool) and ‘local knowledge’ is important for managers to achieve appropriate staffing levels for better patient outcomes. Although WPTs provide managers with predictive information about future staffing requirements, ensuring patient safety and quality care also requires the consideration of information from other sources in real time. Yet little attention has been given to how to support managers to implement WPTs in practice. Given this lack of understanding, this evidence synthesis is designed to address the research question: managers’ use of WPTs and their impacts on nurse staffing and patient care: what works, for whom, how and in what circumstances?

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Article looking at the role of the Nurse Associate written by Jonathan Hayton, a third-year student, studying a BSc (Hons) in Adult Nursing at King’s College London, current chair of the hightingale Student Council. No abstract available.

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Findings show that following coaching, nurse managers gained increased resilience, confidence and better coping mechanisms. This resulted in perceived improved team management and cohesion and appeared to lead to better quality of care for patients.
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The increasing strain of nursing shortages in the healthcare system has led to the recruitment of international nurses among many countries. However, following migration, international nurses are faced with challenges that may result in poor integration with their host countries.
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Nurse managers who provide support and communication through transformational and transactional leadership styles can have a positive impact on staff nurse work engagement and ultimately improve organizational outcomes.
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This paper shows that evidence of early prospective career planning is necessary to optimise success in the tertiary sector. This is particularly important for nurse academics given the profession’s later entry into academia, the ageing nursing workforce and the continuing global shortage of nurses.
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Research by the Institute for Employment Studies has revealed the scale of challenges facing the NHS nursing workforce. Demand continues to outstrip supply and the reported vacancy rate across healthcare providers was around 10%.
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The article discusses the potential impact of the British exit or Brexit from the European Union (EU) to the future of nursing in Great Britain. Topics covered include the reported shortage of nurses in Great Britain, and the potential benefits of relaxing rules to resolving the nursing workforce crisis. It also discusses the need to develop a user-friendly nursing immigration process.
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The prevalence and effects of occupational stress, burnout and low job satisfaction are poorly understood in the health workforce. This article gives a brief overview of occupational stress, burnout and job satisfaction among health professionals, and examines whether engagement in research can contribute to job satisfaction and efficacy, and thereby to reducing stress and burnout.

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Recent financial pressures on and care quality scandals in the UK NHS impact on the work of executive nurse directors. The short length of tenure and the high number of vacancies for these posts point to the exacting demands of the role and raise questions about the support mechanisms available for the most senior nurses in NHS organizations. The aim of this study was to explore the role stressors experienced by executive nurse directors and strategies employed to maintain resilience. Concludes that recent fiscal austerity and scandals relating to quality of care have increased pressure on executive nurse directors. Increasing size of organizations, limited resources devoted to quality combined with poorly defined limits of responsibility are all major stressors and executive nurse directors, both in the United Kingdom and internationally, need clear strategies to maintain resilience. Repetitive demands for data by oversight organizations may detract from more important quality assurance strategies.

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