title: Evaluating nursing staff mix in long-term care: a comprehensive framework for decision-makers.
abstract: The connection between care-provider type and patient outcomes is well established. Less well understood, however, is how to evaluate staff mix decision-making aimed at maximizing quality outcomes for care recipients, nursing staff and healthcare systems. From May through November 2008, Eastern Health, the largest regional integrated health authority in Newfoundland and Labrador, conducted a Staff Mix Intervention Project designed, in part, to gauge the effectiveness of the Evaluation Framework to Determine the Impact of Nursing Staff Mix Decisions in assessing the impact of nursing staff mix changes in long-term care. Results reveal that the Evaluation Framework is a useful tool for managers and other decision-makers to use when measuring the comprehensive effects of staff mix changes and planning further human resources modifications.
authors.affiliation: Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority, Newfoundland.
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kennedy
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003657:Decision Making; D017144:Focus Groups; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards*; D012112:Residential Facilities / Q000191:economics; D000078329:Workforce