The Safer Nursing Care Tool as a guide to nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards: observational and modelling study

• Main Authors: Peter Griffiths (Author), Christina Saville (Author), Jane E Ball (Author), Rosemary Chable (Author), Andrew Dimech (Author), Jeremy Jones (Author), Yvonne Jeffrey (Author), Natalie Pattison (Author), Alejandra Recio Saucedo (Author), Nicola Sinden (Author), Thomas Monks (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: National Institute for Health Research, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: The Safer Nursing Care Tool is a system designed to guide decisions about nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards, in particular the number of nurses to employ (establishment). The Safer Nursing Care Tool is widely used in English hospitals but there is a lack of evidence about how...