sing the Safer Nursing Care Tool to identify nurse staffing requirements in hospitals
- Conditions
- Not ApplicableAdult inpatient general wards in four acute care NHS hospital trusts
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN12307968
- Lead Sponsor
- The University of Southampton (UK)
- Brief Summary
2019 Other publications in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31129446 literature review (added 03/10/2019) 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32553995/ results (added 22/06/2020) 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32619850/ results (added 06/07/2020) 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32703685/ results (added 28/07/2020) 2021 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33677251/ simulation and economic modelling results (added 08/03/2021) 2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32414828/ (added 04/07/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 81
1. Wards providing inpatient care for 7 days per week
2. Adult somatic health population/medical or surgical
3. Appropriate for SNCT according to the SNCT resource pack
1. Wards that are assessed as providing highly specialised services (e.g. maternity, paediatric units) with atypical staffing requirements (as determined by local chief investigator, with documented reason)
2. Day case, weekday wards
3. IC
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Associations between deviations from required staffing (measured by the SNCT) and measures of staffing adequacy (nurse-reported)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Perception of staffing adequacy<br>2. Proportion of days that wards are critically under/over staffed based on 4 policies for using SNCT results (SNCT standard approach; maximum staffing approach; flexible staffing approach; policies established by expert patient/public reference groups)