Ghadeer Al-Dweik 1 , Muayyad Ahmad 2 Show Affiliations »
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Matching nursing shift assignment to patients' acuity scores may promote a more equitable and effective workload balance, increasing nurses' satisfaction, and improving quality of care (QoC). PURPOSE: This article explores nurses' perspectives about the nursing assignment process after implementing a project to promote an improved nursing assignment process in medical/surgical wards by using Perroca patient acuity tool (PAT). DESIGN: Qualitative approach was used with two focus group discussions including a total of 13 participants, selected by purposive sampling. RESULTS: Four main themes were generated from the data. The main study themes were: assignment based on acuity score, challenges and limitation, change journey and participants' suggestions, and recommendations for improving the assignment process. CONCLUSIONS: Implementing the tool will yield better nursing assignments; better nursing and patient outcomes and improve QoC. © Copyright 2020 Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
BACKGROUND: Matching nursing shift assignment to patients ' acuity scores may promote a more equitable and effective workload balance, increasing nurses' satisfaction, and improving quality of care (QoC). PURPOSE: This article explores nurses' perspectives about the nursing assignment process after implementing a project to promote an improved nursing assignment process in medical/surgical wards by using Perroca patient acuity tool (PAT). DESIGN: Qualitative approach was used with two focus group discussions including a total of 13 participants , selected by purposive sampling. RESULTS: Four main themes were generated from the data. The main study themes were: assignment based on acuity score, challenges and limitation, change journey and participants ' suggestions, and recommendations for improving the assignment process. CONCLUSIONS: Implementing the tool will yield better nursing assignments; better nursing and patient outcomes and improve QoC. © Copyright 2020 Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
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Keywords:
Nurses' satisfaction; Nursing assignment; Nursing workload; Patient acuity tools; Patient classification systems
Year: 2020
PMID： 32229511 DOI： 10.1891/JNM-D-18-00101
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Nurs Meas ISSN： 1061-3749