Skill mix emerged as a prominent issue in nursing at a time when a new environment, imbued with management values, was …, experienced and inexperienced, in relation to costs, outcomes and quality of nursing care. Despite the strong passions aroused by … the mix of nurses required to provide the necessary care for patients. In addition, previous work on staff turnover, and …

to investigate the relationship between case-mix and nursing workload measures. Specifically, this report focuses on the … individual patient level and the overall relationship of case-mix and nursing workload is explored at ward level. The rationale … for the choice of Nursing Workload Management Systems (NWMs) and the study design adopted to assess the NWMs chosen is …

workload of nurses of different grades. This is with a view to identifying nursing skill mixes and working practices that may … reduce workforce demand for more highly skilled nursing staff. The research utilises a large data set collected across some … 30 hospitals as part of a nursing workload classification system (NISCM – Nursing Information System for Change …

decided to focus extensively on a professional assessment of the delivery of nursing care: the patients’ perceptions, although …The objective of the study was to examine the links between inputs into the process of nursing, in particular, the … skill mix of nursing staff and the outputs of nursing in terms of the quality and outcome of care. The review of literature …

The need to develop methods of measuring nursing workload is not new, but the search for accurate measures to calculate … the demand for nursing has assumed greater significance in recent years owing to the advent of resource management and the … necessity to manage efficiently the most costly resource in the NHS; that of nursing. Currently there are 23 Nurse Management …