Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill Mix in General and Specialist Medical and Surgical Care Settings in Ireland 2018
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Final Report and Recommendations by the Taskforce on Staffing and Skill Mix for Nursing
The Taskforce on Staffing and Skill Mix for Nursing began its work in September 2014. The core objective of the Taskforce is to develop frameworks to support the determination of safe nurse staffing and skill mix (whereby nurse staffing refers to the nursing team including both the nurse and healthcare assistant roles) in a range of major specialities.
The stimulus to establish the Taskforce included the recommendations from:
Phase I of the work of this Taskforce focused on the development of a framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist, medical and surgical care settings.
This final report provides an overview of the approach to the development and testing of the Phase I Framework, and importantly sets out the key information to guide services on how to determine safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings.
Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill Mix in General and Specialist Medical and Surgical Care Settings in Ireland 2018.
Final Report and Recommendations by the Taskforce on Staffing and Skill Mix for Nursing
In addition, there are a number of additional supporting evidence documents that are set out further below, and can be read here.
The objectives of the Taskforce were to:
On this basis this final report:
Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-Mix
This report outlines the methods and results of the programme of research that has evaluated the implementation of the Framework in three pilot sites. It builds on two previous reports of research that evaluated the pilot between July 2016 and June 2017: Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-Mix – Report 1 (Drennan et al. 2017a) and, Evaluation of the Pilot
Implementation of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-Mix – Report 2 (Drennan et al. 2017b). This report further evaluates the implementation of the recommendations in the Framework in six pilot wards from July 2017 to October 2017.
Read the Evaluation of the Pilot Implementation of the Framework for Safe Nurse Staffing and Skill-Mix here.