NZ Nursing Research Database -- Query Results

McKelvie, R. (2019). Where we are and how we got here: an institutional ethnography of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project in New Zealand. Doctoral thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North. Abstract: Charts a detailed description and analysis of how aspects of the strategies of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project work in everyday hospital settings. Argues that nurses' situated knowledge and work are being organised and overridden by competing institutional knowledge and priorities in a competitive institutional environment. Demonstrates the consequences for nurses, patients and staffing strategies. Conducts 30 interviews with 26 participants, including frontline nurses and participants in safe staffing projects. Keywords: Safe staffing; Short staffing; Frontline nurses; Patient safety; Care Capacity Demand Programme; Nurse Safe Staffing Project; Trendcare; Institutional ethnography; Surveys http://www.nursingresearch.co.nz/refbase/show.php?record=1651
Taylor, B. (Ed.). (2021). Nurse staffing in the operating rooms -- no longer behind closed doors. Master's thesis, University of Auckland, Auckland. Abstract: Identifies key factors senior perioperative nurses consider when making decisions about nurse staffing and skill mix in the operating room (OR). Uses a qualitative descriptive approach in undertaking semi-structured interviews with 7 senior nurses tasked with decision-making about OR staffing. Analyses the data using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis process. Keywords: Perioperative nursing; Safe staffing; Decision-making; Surveys http://www.nursingresearch.co.nz/refbase/show.php?record=1822

Abstract: Charts a detailed description and analysis of how aspects of the strategies of the Nurse Safe Staffing Project work in everyday hospital settings. Argues that nurses' situated knowledge and work are being organised and overridden by competing institutional knowledge and priorities in a competitive institutional environment. Demonstrates the consequences for nurses, patients and staffing strategies. Conducts 30 interviews with 26 participants, including frontline nurses and participants in safe staffing projects.

Keywords: Safe staffing; Short staffing; Frontline nurses; Patient safety; Care Capacity Demand Programme; Nurse Safe Staffing Project; Trendcare; Institutional ethnography; Surveys

http://www.nursingresearch.co.nz/refbase/show.php?record=1651

Abstract: Identifies key factors senior perioperative nurses consider when making decisions about nurse staffing and skill mix in the operating room (OR). Uses a qualitative descriptive approach in undertaking semi-structured interviews with 7 senior nurses tasked with decision-making about OR staffing. Analyses the data using Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis process.