title: This staffing model is great news for nursing.
abstract: Imagine working in an NHS organisation that enforces a 70:30 split between registered and unregistered staff, and that ensures ward sisters and those in similar roles are wholly supervisory; where hospital managers guarantee there will be between 1.25 and 1.8 nurses per bed. Well, this is exactly what is being promised by the five NHS trusts in Northern Ireland, as you can discover by reading a feature in this week's Nursing Standard.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009660:Northern Ireland; D009726:Nurses; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D006113:United Kingdom