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To examine whether manpower and expertise understaffing are distinct, and whether they relate similarly to nursing stressors, burnout, job satisfaction and intentions to turnover.
A cross-sectional survey of hospital nurses nested within units was used.
The sample included 402 nurses. Nurses provided ratings of the study's variables using validated self-report measures. The data were analysed both as multilevel and single-level data.
Manpower and expertise understaffing contributed unique explained variance to all of the examined outcomes. Nurses within the same units experience different understaffing levels. Expertise understaffing emerged as a significantly stronger predictor than manpower understaffing for three of the six of the outcome variables (illegitimate tasks, job satisfaction and turnover intentions).
Manpower and expertise understaffing are distinct, and both are associated with nurse outcomes.
We have adhered to the STROBE guideline for cross-sectional studies.
Considering both manpower and expertise understaffing to maintain proper staffing levels in nursing units is crucial.
A Director of Patient Care Services from the hospital where the study was conducted is a member of the research team. This member contributed to designing and conducting the study as well as interpreting the results.
To identify implementation strategies that effectively facilitate the adoption of social needs care coordination activities using enabling technologies among care management teams serving patients in community-based health centres.
Modified Delphi process.
Discrete, feasible implementation strategies were identified through literature review and semi-structured interviews with care management staff and subject matter experts in clinical informatics, workflow redesign, and product engineering. A modified Delphi was conducted with eight subject matter experts and nine health centre care management staff. Iterative rounds of online surveys were used to achieve consensus on the most relevant implementation strategies and their delivery methods.
The modified Delphi process achieved consensus on nine discrete implementation strategies needed to advance care management teams' ability to screen, refer and track social needs. Prioritised strategies included developing champions, enhancing quality improvement capacity, training staff on using enabling technologies and providing tailored technical assistance for workflow refinement. Consensus was also reached on a monthly cadence for most of the implementation strategies.
Consensus was reached on strategies to enhance care management teams' implementation of social needs screening, referrals and tracking using enabling technologies. These strategies will comprise an intervention to be pilot tested, refined and assessed in a cluster randomised clinical trial.
Findings from this study will inform the development of strategies to further the adoption of enabling technologies to support social needs care coordination.
This work is key to the design of a type 2 hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial that will assess whether user-informed, evidence-based implementation strategies can improve care management teams' adoption of enabling technologies to facilitate social needs care coordination for patients.
The research team includes a patient advisor with community-based nursing expertise and a nurse practitioner-clinical informaticist leader who was involved in data collection and interpretation of findings.
Trial registration: Clinicaltrials.gov registration # NCT06489002. Registered July 5, 2024, https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06489002?term=NCT06489002&rank=1.
To present a model of the determinants of maternal mortality for Indigenous women—social, structural, political and biological.
Non-Indigenous academicians and an Indigenous tribal citizen and scholar partnered to amplify Indigenous women's voices.
With epistemic decolonisation and Indigenist feminism as our theoretical basis, we used theory derivation to create a model of the determinants of Indigenous maternal mortality.
Risk factors include biological warfare and ongoing cultural genocide. We also identified protective factors like resilience and cultural connectedness. Finally, we illustrate complex and multifaceted relationships among and between these concepts in a model of the determinants of Indigenous maternal mortality.
Solutions that address determinants of Indigenous maternal mortality are critical for Indigenous families to flourish. Academic researchers and tribal communities must continue to partner to support the safety and vitality of Indigenous women.
Our model can inform nursing and other research, including interdisciplinary research, policy development and trauma-informed, culturally relevant clinical practice to address disparities in maternal mortality that Indigenous women experience.
Despite increasing attention to the United States' maternal health crisis, stark disparities persist between groups of women. At its peak in December 2021, Indigenous maternal mortality was 118.7 deaths per 100,000 live births—the highest of all groups, and almost 5 times higher than that of their White counterparts (26.6).
Not applicable.
Three members of the public who identify as Indigenous agreed to review and comment on the model specifically from their Indigenous lens.
To describe symptom patterns in first-time mothers through 3 months postpartum.
Longitudinal, descriptive correlational.
Secondary analysis of data from a randomised clinical trial of first-time mothers. Symptoms were assessed at 1, 2 and 3 months postpartum using the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale for dimensions of 32 symptoms.
New mothers (n = 114) reported an average of 7.0 (SD 4.7) symptoms at 1 month, decreasing to 5.3 (SD 4.3) at 3 months. Physical symptoms decreased to the greatest degree. Symptoms reported by over 33% of participants included lack of energy, worrying, pain, difficulty sleeping or concentrating and feeling irritable, sad or drowsy. The most distressing were lack of energy, feeling irritable, pain, nervousness and hair loss. Symptoms did not differ by type of birth or infant feeding. Older mothers (≥ 35 years) had significantly more symptoms and distress than younger mothers.
Most symptoms improved over time, yet some were still prevalent at 3 months. Symptoms not appraised as particularly distressing may still be of clinical concern for safety reasons. Frequent postpartum assessments and interventions are important, particularly for older mothers.
In the first 3 months, postpartum symptoms not perceived as distressing may lead to adverse health outcomes. These symptoms may threaten maternal–infant welfare beyond the first 3 months postpartum. Older first-time mothers merit particular attention by clinicians.
The authors complied with STROBE reporting guidelines.
No patient or public contribution.
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