Implementing a Care-Based Nursing Workforce Model: Implications for Missed Care, Teamwork, and Satisfaction.

Background: Nursing care delivery models may serve as a significant factor contributing to nurse satisfaction, frequency of missed care, and patient outcomes.

Local Problem: The nursing leadership team at our institution sought to determine if an adaptation of our primary registered nurse (RN) nursing model would enhance satisfaction of bedside nurses and care of patients.

Methods: An improvement study introducing a care-based delivery model was implemented between January 2023 and January 2024 on a medical-surgical neurology/spinal unit at our organization.

Using Brainstorming and Affinity Diagramming for Recommending a Care-Based Nursing Workforce Model.

Background: Nursing care delivery models influence nursing workload.

Problem: Poorly designed nursing workforce models may lead to lack of satisfaction in practice, inability to recruit staff, and nursing turnover.

Approach: This paper describes a process that our team undertook to evaluate one nursing unit's nursing care delivery model and provides a recommendation for a nursing workforce model that ensures practice to top of scope while maintaining a balanced workload.

Survival of viral biowarfare agents in disinfected waters.

Protecting civilian and military water supplies has received more attention since the United States began its war on terror in 2001. Both chlorine and bromine are used by branches of the U.S.

Studies of the suitability of fowlpox as a decontamination and thermal stability simulant for variola major.

Variola major, the causative agent of smallpox, has been eradicated from nature. However, stocks still exist; thus, there is a need for relevant decontamination studies, preferably with nonpathogenic simulants. Previous studies have shown a similarity in response of vaccinia virus and variola major to various decontaminants and thermal inactivation.