Nurses’ Reports On Hospital Care In Five Countries

• DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.20.3.43
• Publication Date: 2003-12-08T18:51:26Z
• Authors: Linda H. Aiken; Sean P. Clarke; Douglas M. Sloane; Julie A. Sochalski; Reinhard Busse; Heather Clarke; Phyllis Giovannetti; Jennifer Hunt; Anne Marie Rafferty; Judith Shamian
• Keywords: Economic shortage

The current nursing shortage, high hospital nurse job dissatisfaction, and reports of uneven quality care are not uniquely American phenomena. This paper presents from 43,000 nurses more than 700 hospitals in the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Germany 1998–1999. Nurses countries with distinctly different health systems report similar shortcomings their work environments care. While competence relation between physicians appear satisfactory, core problems design workforce management threaten provision Resolving these issues, which amenable to managerial intervention, is essential preserving patient safety consistently quality.