The proposed study will examine the influence of nurse staffing levels, the skill mix of baccalaureate-prepared RNs, and the nursing practice environment on a range of nurse-sensitive patient outcomes among medical and surgical patients in public hospitals in Hong Kong using a prospective design.
In this way, the study includes long-stay residents with a range of nursing home lengths of stay in excess of 90 days.
23 This qualitative study was developed to explore a range of nurses' experiences of caring in the transition to palliative care.
While the sample size may limit representativeness of findings to other healthcare settings, we included a range of nurses working in different environments and data saturation was achieved.
The team members represented a broad range of nursing expertise, holding advanced nursing degrees in a variety of fields, such as oncology nursing, palliative care, intensive care, psychiatric care, substance abuse nursing and clinical supervision.
Consequently, a broad range of nurses in both primary and secondary care, including specialist nurses, practice nurses and nurse practitioners, now encounter patients with acute and on-going respiratory conditions [ 21, 22].
The activities selected in each domain were not intended to describe the whole range of nursing activities, but rather to cover the breadth and depth of the nursing work continuum.
Furthermore, in order to gain a better understanding of substitution, future research should map a wider range of nurses, the various levels of training and clinicians' characteristics, which are provided in many countries.
The nascent PHP initially took the form of non-formal summer school and winter school programmes providing continuing professional development courses to a wide range of nurses and mid-level health services managers from South Africa and southern Africa.
