Acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed care and patient outcomes: A cluster-unit-level descriptive comparison.

Aim: To compare the patient acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed nursing care and patient outcomes among hospital unit-clusters.

Background: Relationships among acuity, nurse staffing and workforce, missed nursing care and patient outcomes are not completely understood.

Method: Descriptive design with data from four unit-clusters: medical, surgical, combined and step-down units.

[Corporal hygiene of the critical patient. Adverse effects].

Hygiene is a technique that has to do with strict monitoring and control based on knowledge and a good team for the critically ill patient does not suffer its consequences such as: hemodynamic instability mismatch breathing...