Care Quality, Patient Safety, and Nurse Outcomes at Hospitals Serving Economically Disadvantaged Patients: A Case for Investment in Nursing.

We sought to evaluate if better work environments or staffing were associated with improvements in care quality, patient safety, and nurse outcomes across hospitals caring for different proportions of patients who are economically disadvantaged. Few actionable approaches for hospitals with quality and resource deficits exist. One solution may be to invest in the nurse work environment and staffing.

Missed nursing care is linked to patient satisfaction: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals.

Background: As nurses are the principal care provider in the hospital setting, the completion or omission of nursing care is likely to have a sizable impact on the patient care experience. However, this relationship has not been explored empirically.

Aim: To describe the prevalence and patterns of missed nursing care and explore their relationship to the patient care experience.

Factors influencing job satisfaction of new graduate nurses participating in nurse residency programs: a systematic review.

Nurse residency programs are designed to increase competence and skill, and ease the transition from student to new graduate nurse. These programs also offer the possibility to positively influence the job satisfaction of new graduate nurses, which could decrease poor nursing outcomes. However, little is known about the impact of participation in a nurse residency program on new graduate nurses' satisfaction.