Ontario nurses are currently experiencing work overload due to a shortage of nursing staff, high turnover and high absenteeism due to injury and illness. Nursing work overload has been shown to negatively effect nurse satisfaction, patient satisfaction and patient outcomes, while increasing overall costs of providing nursing care through overtime and absenteeism. The objective of this study is to determine whether adding additional nursing resources, in the form of a proportionate increase in nursing FTEs, will have a positive effect on nurse satisfaction while maintaining or increasing patient satisfaction and maintaining or decreasing nursing unit costs. Positive study results will provide support for a viable and sustainable means of implementing the CNAC recommendations.
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- 67
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- Canada
