Framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings in Ireland 2018 : final report and recommendations by the taskforce on staffing and skill mix for nursing

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2018-04-15

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Ireland. Department of Health

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Ireland. Department of Health, 'Framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings in Ireland 2018 : final report and recommendations by the taskforce on staffing and skill mix for nursing', [report], Department of Health, 2018-04-15

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In April 2014, the then Minister for Health Dr James Reilly TD, approved the establishment of a Taskforce on Staffing and Skill Mix for Nursing. The Taskforce began its work in September 2014, and has continued to be supported by both successive Ministers for Health, Leo Varadkar and Simon Harris. The core objective of the Taskforce is to develop frameworks to support the determination of safe nurse staffing and skill mix (whereby nurse staffing refers to the nursing team including both the nurse and healthcare assistant roles) in a range of major specialities. The stimulus to establish the Taskforce included the recommendations from; 1) an increasing number of high profile health inquiry reports such as the Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry (2013) and the HIQA Tallaght Hospital Report (2012b), and; 2) the increasing body of research evidence linking components of the nursing resource to patient outcomes. Simultaneously, the Irish health service was and continues to undergo some of the most radical reforms in its history, and collectively these changes and evidence acted as the catalyst to the establishment of the Taskforce. Phase I of the work of this Taskforce focused on the development of a framework for safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist, medical and surgical care settings. This final report provides an overview of the approach to the development and testing of the Phase I Framework, and importantly sets out the key information to guide services on how to determine safe nurse staffing and skill mix in general and specialist medical and surgical care settings. In addition, there are a number of additional supporting evidence documents that are set out further below, and can be accessed at; http://health.gov.ie/officeofthechiefnursingofficer/ ourpolicies/taskforceonstaffingandskillmixfornursing/

Author: Ireland. Department of Health

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Ireland. Department of Health

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Department of Health

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report

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http://hdl.handle.net/2262/93939

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