title: Adverse nurse outcomes: correlation to nurses' workload, staffing, and shift rotation in Kuwaiti hospitals.
abstract: This study was conducted to identify adverse outcomes to nurses in relation to their daily patient load, nursing care activities, staffing, and shift rotation. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from medical and surgical nurses (N = 784). Skipping tea/coffee breaks (95%), feeling responsible for more patients than they could safely care for (87%), inadequate help available (86%), inadequate time to document care (80%), verbal abuse by a patient or a visitor (77%), and concern about quality of care (71%) were the major reported adverse outcomes related to short staffing, increased patient load, and increased nursing care activities.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, Public Authority for Applied Education and Training, A-Shuwaikh, Kuwait. fatimah@paaet.edu.kw
authors.forename: Fatimah
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Al-Kandari
authors.forename: Deepa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D007730:Kuwait; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000523:psychology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D012308:Risk Management; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000517:prevention & control; D016526:Workload