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The Safer Nursing Care Tool as a guide to nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards: observational and modelling study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2020
Background: The Safer Nursing Care Tool is a system designed to guide decisions about nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards, in particular the number of nurses to employ (establishment).
Peter Griffiths, Christina Saville, Jane E Ball, Rosemary Chable, Andrew Dimech, Jeremy Jones, Yvonne Jeffrey, Natalie Pattison, Alejandra Recio Saucedo, Nicola Sinden, Thomas Monks   +10 more
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Personnel scheduling models for hospital ancillary units.

, 1995
Hospital ancillary units face difficult staffing problems due to demand variability by time of day and day of week. For such problems, tour scheduling models play an important role in minimizing labor cost while meeting the staffing needs and personnel ...
Isken, Mark Wayne
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A systematic review of facilitators and barriers to school staff development projects using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper is a systematic literature review (SLR) of research published between 2009 and 2022 that aims to identify facilitators and barriers to implementing staff development projects (SDPs) in schools in England. Twelve research papers fulfilled all inclusion criteria and were each evaluated as being at least medium‐quality research.
David Preston, Pamela Qualter, Kevin Woods   +2 more
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ClimateQUAL® and Thinklets: Using ClimateQUAL® with Group Support Systems to Facilitate Discussion and Set Priorities for Organizational Change at Criss Library

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2013
Objective – This article discusses a series of actions taken by the Criss Library at the University of Nebraska at Omaha to implement organizational change, using the ClimateQUAL® survey and facilitated discussions with ThinkTank™ group decision software.
Nora Hillyer, Audrey DeFrank
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Bridging home, school and community to address educational inequality: Supporting educational trajectories through community bridge work

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the role of community stakeholders in supporting the educational trajectories of students experiencing socio‐economic disadvantage in the Irish context. Building on international and national policy debates, the study examines how community‐based organisations, statutory services and outreach initiatives work alongside ...
Aoife Joy Keogh, Deirdre McGillicuddy
wiley   +1 more source

Factors that influence locum practice in public and faith-based hospitals in Malawi

Health SA Gesondheid: Journal of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences
Background: Locum practice is a non-standard form of employment used to address the shortage of healthcare workers in hospitals. In Malawi, the locum practice is used to improvre the availability of healthcare workers and promote continuity of care ...
Mabel B.N. Chinkhata, Masauko Msiska, Rodwell Gundo   +2 more
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Job satisfaction and sleep quality in nursing professionals

Sleep Science, 2011
This study aimed to verify the correlation between job satisfaction and sleep quality among nursing technicians and assistants who worked 12-hour night shifts at a philanthropic hospital in Tubarão (SC), Brazil.
Edla Maria Silveira Luz, Elaine Marqueze, Claudia Moreno   +2 more
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Beyond standardisation, subjects and syllabi: How primary schools organise for arts richness in an era of curriculum reform

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As England embarks on its first comprehensive curriculum review in fifteen years, this paper offers critical insights from schools that sustained arts‐rich provision despite a policy landscape hostile to creative subjects. Drawing on data from the Researching Arts‐rich Primary Schools (RAPS) project—a mixed‐methods study of 76 arts‐rich ...
Pat Thomson, Christine Hall
wiley   +1 more source

University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

People deliver eye care: managing human resources

Community Eye Health Journal, 2005
People deliver health. Effective health care needs an efficient and motivated health workforce, which is the totality of individuals who directly or indirectly contribute to the promotion, protection and improvement of the health of the population ...
Kayode Odusote
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