Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 139-146, August 2008

Adverse nurse outcomes: correlation to nurses' workload, staffing, and shift rotation in Kuwaiti hospitals

College of Nursing, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, A-Shuwaikh, Kuwait

Received 31 May 2006; received in revised form 30 October 2006; accepted 31 October 2006.

Abstract 

This study was conducted to identify adverse outcomes to nurses in relation to their daily patient load, nursing care activities, staffing, and shift rotation. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from medical and surgical nurses (N = 784). Skipping tea/coffee breaks (95%), feeling responsible for more patients than they could safely care for (87%), inadequate help available (86%), inadequate time to document care (80%), verbal abuse by a patient or a visitor (77%), and concern about quality of care (71%) were the major reported adverse outcomes related to short staffing, increased patient load, and increased nursing care activities.

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PII: S0897-1897(06)00139-X

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2006.10.008

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 139-146, August 2008

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