Use of Outsourced Nurses in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals: Outcomes and Leadership Preferences
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Publication Title
Journal of Nursing Administration
DOI
10.1097/NNA.0b013e31820594a8
Abstract
When staffing effectiveness is not maintained over time, the likelihood of negative outcomes increases. This challenge is particularly problematic in long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs) where use of outsourced temporary nurses is common when providing safe, sufficient care to medically complex patients who require longer hospital stays than normally would occur. To assess this issue, the authors discuss the outcomes of their survey of LTACH chief nursing officers that demonstrated LTACH quality indicators and overall patient satisfaction were within nationally accepted benchmarks even with higher levels of outsourced nurses used in this post-acute care setting.
Recommended Citation
Alvarez, Raymona M., Bernard J. Kerr, Joan Burtner, Gerald R. Ledlow, Larry V. Fulton.
2011.
"Use of Outsourced Nurses in Long Term Acute Care Hospitals: Outcomes and Leadership Preferences."
Journal of Nursing Administration, 41 (2).
doi: 10.1097/NNA.0b013e31820594a8
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/health-policy-facpubs/16
