How the reliability and validity of the patient classification system can be ensured in daily nursing work? A follow-up study.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed to determine the reliability and validity of the RAFAELA patient classification system (PCS) for qualified and efficient nurses.

Background: The number of patients per nurse or diagnosis-based determination of nursing workload are imprecise measures that do not consider the variation in patients' care needs. Ensuring the reliability and validity of the RAFAELA is important for the efficient allocation of nursing resources.

Hospital mortality and optimality of nursing workload: A study on the predictive validity of the RAFAELA Nursing Intensity and Staffing system.

Background: Patient classification systems have been developed to manage workloads by estimating the need for nursing resources through the identification and quantification of individual patients' care needs. There is in use a diverse variety of patient classification systems. Most of them lack validity and reliability testing and evidence of the relationship to nursing outcomes.

Who benefits from clinical supervision and how? The association between clinical supervision and the work-related well-being of female hospital nurses.

Aim And Objectives: The aims of this study were (1) to identify which nurses benefitted most from clinical supervision and (2) to explore whether they were healthier and more satisfied with their work than their peers who did not attend clinical supervision.

Background: To maintain quality nursing, there is currently a social call to improve the well-being of nurses at work. Restoring nurses' well-being is one of the main purposes of clinical supervision.

Does clinical supervision promote medical-surgical nurses' well-being at work? A quasi-experimental 4-year follow-up study.

Aim: The aim of the present paper is to report results of a quasi-experimental study exploring the effects of clinical supervision (CS) on the development of medical-surgical nurses' well-being at work over a 4-year period.

Background: Effective workplace interventions are needed to prevent stress and burnout. More robust scientific evidence is needed to confirm the restorative effects of CS in nursing.

Stress relief or practice development: varied reasons for attending clinical supervision.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to explore the differences in the uptake of clinical supervision on the medical and surgical units of an acute hospital relating to the nurses' background and perceptions of their work and health.

Background: Considering the varied challenges of nursing in different specialities, the reasons for attending clinical supervision may also vary.

Methods: In 2003, a survey on work and health issues was conducted in a Finnish university hospital with a 3-year follow-up of the uptake of clinical supervision by the respondents.

Who attends clinical supervision? The uptake of clinical supervision by hospital nurses.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to identify which nurses decide to participate in clinical supervision (CS) when it is provided for all nursing staff.

Background: Clinical supervision is available today for health care providers in many organisations. However, regardless of evidence showing the benefits of CS, some providers decide not to participate in the sessions.