Nurses working on shifts with the worst staffing (11.67 patients per RN) were twice as likely to report inadequate patient surveillance, when compared with those in the best staffed environments (less than 6.14 patients per RN).
Seventy-eight per cent of those in the best staffed environments (the upper quintile, with 6.13 patient or fewer per RN) reported some care was missed on their last shift, compared with 90% of those with lower staffing levels (7.4 patients or more per RN).
Kitchen workers, or "back of house" staff, are mostly students, working more than 20 hours a week in what seemed to me to be a perpetually under-staffed environment.
Ed Cafasso, a former journalist who has known Fehrnstrom since their time at Boston University's college newspaper and who worked with him at the Herald and at another paper, said both came up in a competitive media environment of fully staffed newspapers and television stations with investigative units.
Interhospital transport by standard ambulance is associated with limited monitoring capabilities and less staffed guidance during transfer than in the ICU environment; thus imposing additional risk to the ICU patient [ 2- 5].
I have also worked in well-staffed and badly staffed departments, and witnessed how better staffing makes the NHS a safer place.
The environment minister, Greg Hunt, said on Sunday an A319 aircraft, co-ordinated and staffed by Customs personnel, would be deployed for the monitoring from January to March.
Even with a well-staffed news organization, we are hostages to the non-stop, never-ending file-it-now, get-on-the-Web, get-on-the-radio, get-on-TV media environment".
It was capably staffed and well-funded.
Is it staffed by trained rape counsellors?
