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“You think you’re going to save money when you reduce nurse staffing. NO. You ADD costs. It is NOT a cost saving”. Concludes Jack Needleman Take note health policy makers & managers worldwide.

Dr Lisa Smeds Alenius presents data from Sweden on the importance of work environment - for nurses and for patient care.

Great presentation by Lisa Smeds Alenius Disconnect between extent of influence & participation vs demands/expectations placed on RNs.

Recent article in BMJ Quality and Safety demonstrating association of low staffing for RNs on mortality. Also find an independent effect of low nursing support staffing on mortality. bit.ly/2XcA07Y

Association of registered nurse and nursing support staffing with inpatient hospital mortality qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/29/1/10

How do we make this happen? Start by looking at whether national bodies have a nurse on board and identifying the gaps. e.g Is there a nurse on the NHS Research Authority Board? The Health Research Authority

1/When discharged, Boris Johnson praised the NHS and its providers in general, but he also did a shout out to two of his ICU nurses. What struck me about the shout out was he praised the knowledge and skill of the nurses, not just their caring.#nursing ILC Connected 2 Care Prof Jane Ball (FRCN)💙

2/The public and health professionals often understand the physical and emotional demands of nursing, but not the cognitive or managerial demands or expectations. It was refreshing to hear Johnson highlight the skill and expertise of the nursing staff. #nursing

3/Professional nursing should track down that quote, put it on a loop, and use it to help the public and other health professionals appreciate the cognitive and skill-based work nurses do. #nursing

This Thursday 12 PDT, participating in webinar "Mexico, Canada, the United States and COVID-19 The Challenges for North America's Federalist Democracies." Info and registration: international.ucla.edu/lai/calendar/1…

D Kevin Drum Doing presentation tomorrow for UCLA International Center on covid in US, Canada, Mexico. Would it be possible to get copies of your slides for the three plus Italy? Thanks.

Important work on diversity in HSR being led by Taylor B. Rogers, PhD, MPH. More here: bit.ly/2P7bySd Take the survey and follow the project.#ARM20 #ARM2020

Recent op-ed in LATimes on need for nurses on Biden covid taskforce, coupled with petition drive, contributed to nurse and occ health specialist being added. My letter in support of the op-ed tinyurl.com/yynvxkqj Key sentence at end: 1/

2/ Any board or task force trying to analyze and improve care that does not include the expertise of nurses is frankly incompetent to do its work. tinyurl.com/yynvxkqj

Flexible nurse staffing with low baseline staff does not provide a safe or cost-effective approach to staffing hospital wards. With unlimited temporary staff, outcomes are still worse and the cost per life saved of higher base staffing is low ow.ly/hw7r30ry63N

Recent commentary: The challenge of sustaining practice improvement myamericannurse.com/the-challenge-… #AmericanNurse #implementationscience

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