Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Nursing's Golden Ratio: Safe-Staffing:Law

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Nursing's Golden Ratio: Safe-Staffing:Law

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group - POPULATION

Care Philosophy:
Task orientation Vs Person-centred
(Reality: Hybrid that assures person-centredness?)

Individual Patient's, Friend's and Family impression

Individual Patient's, Friend's and Family experience (AND memory)

Confidence in Care
(Confidence as a Learning Environment)
 Individual Nurse's Values
Individual Patient Outcomes
PURPOSES 

Numbers - count
"40,000 missing Nursing" [RCN]
Ratios: x :: y
Staffing Research (Falls, Quality...)
Operational Research; Measures
Dependency; Chronicity; Nursing hours / day; Skill-mix; Care undone
Productive Nursing Care
Demographics: Local, National, Int.
TIME:
tasks, events, priorities, shifts
The E's: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Equity, Equality

 PROCESS
Qualitative



Duty of Care
Public awareness / sensibilities
History of Research into Staffing
(Time and Motion studies)

Direct Nursing Care
High Quality Nursing Care = The Golden Ratio

PRACTICE
Quantitative

Recruitment, Retention, Attrition
Workforce Planning
Professional Accountability
Commensurate: Policy - Law
NMC Code of Conduct
Contract of Employment
Employment T&C
Emigration Policy, Overseas Workers
Professional Bodies inc RCN, Unions ...
Nurse Administration Support
Information System - Synergy?
 POLICY



My prompt with thanks: https://twitter.com/DannGooding/status/1110929934262898689


Additional sources [ c/o @DannGooding ]

A critical moment: NHS staffing trends, retention and attrition
Health Foundation, ISBN: 978-1-911615-25-5

RCN

American Nurses Association, Nurse Staffing Literature Review