| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-29T12:36:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-10-29T12:36:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-04-15 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | 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 | |
| dc.description | 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/ | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Department of Health | en |
| dc.rights | Y | en |
| dc.subject | Health | en |
| dc.subject | Nursing staff | en |
| dc.subject | Adult hospitals | en |
| dc.title | 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 | en |
| dc.type | report | en |
| dc.type.supercollection | edepositireland | |
| dc.contributor.corporatename | Ireland. Department of Health | en |
| dc.publisher.place | IE | en |
| dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/93939 | |
