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RN4CAST - NURSE FORECASTING IN EUROPE Walter Sermeus ...

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<strong>RN4CAST</strong> DESIGN<br />

� Multicountry, multilevel, cross‐sectional design to obtain important<br />

unmeasured factors in forecasting models, collected at the hospital, nursing<br />

unit and individual nurse and patient level:<br />

� Nurse survey: working environment, quality & safety, staffing<br />

� Patient survey: patient experiences with nursing staff, hospital, information<br />

� Hospital survey: : type of hospital, inflow & outflow<br />

� Hospital Discharge data: ICD9/10, length‐of‐stay, adverse events, mortality<br />

� Setting<br />

� At least 30 general acute hospitals in each European country.<br />

� At least 2 general surgical and internal medicine wards in each hospital.<br />

Nursing workforce and quality of care in European hospitals: international conference (Basel, 14 September 2012)<br />

WWW.<strong>RN4CAST</strong>.EU<br />

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