Background Work engagement in professional nursing practice is critically important to
consider when addressing key challenges of health systems, including the global nursing …

The aim of many analyses of large databases is to draw causal inferences about the effects
of actions, treatments, or interventions. Examples include the effects of various options …

OBJECTIVE: ICU nurses are repeatedly exposed to work related stresses resulting in the
development of psychological disorders including posttraumatic stress disorder and burnout …

PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH This book forms part of a series entitled
Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the …

Five subscales were derived from the Nursing Work Index (NWI) to measure the hospital
nursing practice environment, using 1985–1986 nurse data from 16 magnet hospitals. The …

Jean Watson's first edition of Nursing, now considered a classic, introduced the science of
human caring and quickly became one of the most widely used and respected sources of …

The concept of'person-centredness' has become established in approaches to the delivery
of healthcare, particularly with nursing, and is embedded in many international healthcare …

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the net effects of nurse practice
environments on nurse and patient outcomes after accounting for nurse staffing and …

Background It is uncertain whether lower levels of staffing by nurses at hospitals are
associated with an increased risk that patients will have complications or die. Methods We …

Matched sampling is a standard technique in the evaluation of treatments in observational
studies. Matching on estimated propensity scores comprises an important class of …