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<strong>RN4CAST</strong> Design of <strong>the</strong> Nurse Survey<br />

� Hospitals<br />

• Acute hospitals<br />

• Above 100 beds size<br />

• At least 30 hospitals/country<br />

� Nursing units<br />

• General medicine and surgery<br />

(cf. Kaneet al., 2007)<br />

• At least 2 units per hospital,<br />

randomly sampled<br />

� Nurses<br />

• All nurses in direct patient care<br />

Nurse survey<br />

� Work environment:<br />

The Practice Environment Scale of <strong>the</strong> Nursing<br />

Work Index (Lake, 2002)<br />

� Nurse wellbeing:<br />

Burnout (Maslach Burnout Inven<strong>to</strong>ry)<br />

Job satisfaction<br />

Intention <strong>to</strong> leave <strong>the</strong> hospital/profession<br />

� Nurse-perceived quality:<br />

Unit and hospital level quality of care<br />

Readiness of patients for discharge<br />

Frequency of adverse events<br />

Safety climate (AHRQ safety culture)<br />

� Staffing: patient-<strong>to</strong>-nurse ratios<br />

� Demographics data<br />

ICN CONFERENCE AND CNR, 2-8 MAY 2011 MALTA<br />

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

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