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  1. National survey of the UK's mental health nursing workforce
  2. The important factors nurses consider when choosing shift patterns: A cross‐sectional study
  3. Evidence on the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services – A systematic scoping review
  4. Costs and cost-effectiveness of improved nurse staffing levels and skill mix in acute hospitals: A systematic review
  5. Evidence on the use of Birthrate Plus® to guide safe staffing in maternity services – a systematic scoping review
  6. Nursing 12-Hour Shifts and Patient Incidents in Mental Health and Community Hospitals: A Longitudinal Study Using Routinely Collected Data
  7. Shift work characteristics and burnout among nurses: cross-sectional survey
  8. Staffing levels and hospital mortality in England: a national panel study using routinely collected data
  9. The association between multi-disciplinary staffing levels and mortality in acute hospitals: a systematic review
  10. Is it cost-effective to deploy more nurses on hospital wards?
  11. Nurse staffing and patient safety in acute hospitals: Cassandra calls again?
  12. Lesser-known types of violence: Helping nurses and midwives to signal and act
  13. Erratum to “The Quality of Interactions Schedule (QuIS) and person-centred care in acute hospitals: concurrent validity” [International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, Volume 1, November 2019, 100001]
  14. The association between midwifery staffing levels and the experiences of mothers on postnatal wards: Cross sectional analysis of routine data
  15. Lesser-known types of violence: Helping nurses and midwives to signal and act
  16. Nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes: A systematic review of longitudinal studies
  17. A global overview of healthcare workers’ turnover intention amid COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review with future directions
  18. Correction: Nurses’ experiences and preferences around shift patterns: A scoping review
  19. Because they’re worth it? A discussion paper on the value of 12-h shifts for hospital nursing
  20. The organisation of nurse staffing in intensive care units: A qualitative study
  21. Introducing the International Journal of Nursing Studies – Advances
  22. ‘I'll put up with things for a long time before I need to call anybody’: Face work, the Total Institution and the perpetuation of care inequalities
  23. The organisation of nurse staffing in intensive care units: a qualitative study
  24. The association between midwifery staffing levels and the experiences of mothers on postnatal wards: cross sectional analysis of routine data
  25. Staffing levels and hospital mortality in England: a national panel study using routinely collected data
  26. Midwifery and nurse staffing of inpatient maternity services – A systematic scoping review of associations with outcomes and quality of care
  27. Outcomes sensitive to critical care nurse staffing levels: A systematic review
  28. Nurses save the planet
  29. Nurse staffing levels and patient outcomes: a systematic review of longitudinal studies
  30. Nurses’ experiences and preferences around shift patterns: A scoping review
  31. The need for clarity and consistency in defining and reporting primary outcomes
  32. Consensus Development Project (CDP): An overview of staffing for safe and effective nursing care
  33. How long do nursing staff take to measure and record patients’ vital signs observations in hospital? A time-and-motion study
  34. Ward staffing guided by a patient classification system: A multi‐criteria analysis of “fit” in three acute hospitals
  35. Estimating the economic cost of nurse sensitive adverse events amongst patients in medical and surgical settings
  36. Beyond ratios - flexible and resilient nurse staffing options to deliver cost-effective hospital care and address staff shortages: A simulation and economic modelling study
  37. The association between nurse staffing and inpatient mortality: a shift-level retrospective longitudinal study
  38. Midwifery and nurse staffing of inpatient maternity services – a systematic scoping review of associations with outcomes and quality of care
  39. Observational study of the relationship between nurse staffing levels and compliance with mandatory nutritional assessments in hospital
  40. How long do nursing staff take to measure and record patients’ vital signs observations in hospital? A time-and-motion study
  41. Beyond ratios - flexible and resilient nurse staffing options to deliver cost-effective hospital care and address staff shortages: a simulation and economic modelling study
  42. The association between 12-hour shifts and nurses-in-charge's perceptions of missed care and staffing adequacy: a retrospective cross-sectional observational study
  43. Association between Quality of Interactions Schedule ratings and care experiences of people with a dementia in general hospital settings: a validation study
  44. Are long shifts, overtime and staffing levels associated with nurses’ opportunity for educational activities, communication and continuity of care assignments? A cross-sectional study
  45. Healthcare Workers Bioresource: Study outline and baseline characteristics of a prospective healthcare worker cohort to study immune protection and pathogenesis in COVID-19
  46. The association between ward staffing levels, mortality and hospital readmission in older hospitalised adults, according to presence of cognitive impairment: a retrospective cohort study
  47. Development and validation of a methodology to measure the time taken by hospital nurses to make vital signs observations
  48. Impact of volunteers in the emergency department
  49. Publisher’s Note
  50. Night work for hospital nurses and sickness absence: a retrospective study using electronic rostering systems
  51. Healthcare Workers Bioresource: Study outline and baseline characteristics of a prospective healthcare worker cohort to study immune protection and pathogenesis in COVID-19
  52. Burnout in nursing: a theoretical review
  53. Performance of the Safer Nursing Care Tool to measure nurse staffing requirements in acute hospitals: a multicentre observational study
  54. Longitudinal Study of the Variation in Patient Turnover and Patient-to-Nurse Ratio: Descriptive Analysis of a Swiss University Hospital
  55. The association between nurse staffing levels and a failure to respond to patients with deranged physiology: A retrospective observational study in the UK
  56. Costs and consequences of using average demand to plan baseline nurse staffing levels: a computer simulation study
  57. The Safer Nursing Care Tool as a guide to nurse staffing requirements on hospital wards: observational and modelling study
  58. What is the nursing time and workload involved in taking and recording patients’ vital signs? A systematic review
  59. Patient experience of communication consistency amongst staff is related to nurse–physician teamwork in hospitals
  60. Coordinating Compassionate Care Across Nursing Teams: The Implementation Journey of a Planned Intervention
  61. Temporary nursing staff and the risk of death in hospital.
  62. Performance of the Safer Nursing Care Tool to measure nurse staffing requirements in acute hospitals: a multi-centre observational study
  63. Why we should be careful about quoting 'p-values' - or maybe just stop using them altogether
  64. What is the evidence about the tools used to decide how many nurses are needed on hospital wards?
  65. The Quality of Interactions Schedule (QuIS) and person-centred care: Concurrent validity in acute hospital settings
  66. 12‐hr shifts in nursing: Do they remove unproductive time and information loss or do they reduce education and discussion opportunities for nurses? A cross‐sectional study in 12 European countries
  67. Impact of using data from electronic protocols in nursing performance management: A qualitative interview study
  68. How many nurses do we need? A review and discussion of operational research techniques applied to nurse staffing
  69. The association between nurse staffing levels and the timeliness of vital signs monitoring: a retrospective observational study in the UK
  70. The 10-year impact of a ward-level quality improvement intervention in acute hospitals: a multiple methods study
  71. Cognitive impairment is independently associated with mortality, extended hospital stays and early readmission of older people with emergency hospital admissions: A retrospective cohort study
  72. Exploring the sustainability of quality improvement interventions in healthcare organisations: a multiple methods study of the 10-year impact of the ‘Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care’ programme in English acute hospitals
  73. A longitudinal study on the variation of patient turnover and patient-to-nurse ratio: Descriptive analysis of a Swiss University Hospital (Preprint)
  74. Towards safe nurse staffing in England’s National Health Service: Progress and pitfalls of policy evolution
  75. Nursing, midwifery, and the sustainable development goals: An editorial series leading up to the World Health Organization’s “Year of the Nurse & Midwife”
  76. Hospital nurse staffing and staff–patient interactions: an observational study
  77. Nursing must acknowledge and address systemic problems which lead to poor care
  78. Nurses’ 12-hour shifts and missed or delayed vital signs observations on hospital wards: retrospective observational study
  79. What happens when hospital wards are short of nursing staff?
  80. Improving the quality of general practice services in the UK: Surveying the activities of GPs and practice managers (abstract & commentary)*
  81. Association between 12‐hr shifts and nursing resource use in an acute hospital: Longitudinal study
  82. Nurse staffing levels, missed vital signs and mortality in hospitals: retrospective longitudinal observational study
  83. Implementing the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) programme in acute hospital settings: a pilot RCT and feasibility study
  84. A protocol to measure the impact of intentional changes to nurse staffing and skill-mix in medical and surgical wards
  85. Relationships between healthcare staff characteristics and the conduct of vital signs observations at night: Results of a survey and factor analysis
  86. Are long nursing shifts on hospital wards associated with sickness absence? A longitudinal retrospective observational study
  87. Corrigendum to ‘Interventions for compassionate nursing care: A systematic review’ International Journal of Nursing Studies (2016) 137-155
  88. Hospital outcomes of older people with cognitive impairment: An integrative review
  89. Nursing in psychiatric inpatient wards: plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
  90. The association between nurse staffing and omissions in nursing care: A systematic review
  91. A fundamental conflict of care: Nurses’ accounts of balancing patients' sleep with taking vital sign observations at night
  92. Post-operative mortality, missed care and nurse staffing in nine countries: A cross-sectional study
  93. Compassionate care intervention for hospital nursing teams caring for older people: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
  94. The impact of nursing – a self-evident truth?
  95. The impact of "Brexit" on nursing and health services: Editorial debate
  96. Patient satisfaction with hospital care and nurses in England: an observational study
  97. What impact does nursing care left undone have on patient outcomes? Review of the literature
  98. Optimising impact and sustainability: a qualitative process evaluation of a complex intervention targeted at compassionate care
  99. The measurement frequency and completeness of vital signs in general hospital wards: An evidence free zone?
  100. Workforce characteristics and interventions associated with high-quality care and support to older people with cancer: a systematic review
  101. Reliability, feasibility, and validity of the quality of interactions schedule (QuIS) in acute hospital care: an observational study
  102. Cross-sectional examination of the association between shift length and hospital nurses job satisfaction and nurse reported quality measures
  103. The relationship between cognitive impairment, mortality and discharge characteristics in a large cohort of older adults with unscheduled admissions to an acute hospital: a retrospective observational study
  104. Inter-rater reliability of the QuIS as an assessment of the quality of staff-inpatient interactions
  105. Nursing skill mix in European hospitals: cross-sectional study of the association with mortality, patient ratings, and quality of care
  106. Nurse staffing and patient outcomes: Strengths and limitations of the evidence to inform policy and practice. A review and discussion paper based on evidence reviewed for the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence Safe Staffing guideline dev...
  107. Determining priorities for research to improve fundamental care on hospital wards
  108. Experiences of long-term life-limiting conditions among patients and carers: what can we learn from a meta-review of systematic reviews of qualitative studies of chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic kidney disease?
  109. Interventions for compassionate nursing care: A systematic review
  110. Quantity and quality of interaction between staff and older patients in UK hospital wards: A descriptive study
  111. “There's No Place Like Home”: A Scoping Review on the Impact of Homelike Residential Care Models on Resident-, Family-, and Staff-Related Outcomes
  112. Prevalence of cancer chemotherapy-related problems, their relation to health-related quality of life and associated supportive care: a cross-sectional survey
  113. No cheap substitutes
  114. Characteristics of shift work and their impact on employee performance and wellbeing: A literature review
  115. Correction
  116. Why was my paper rejected? Editors’ reflections on common issues which influence decisions to reject papers submitted for publication in academic nursing journals
  117. A cross-sectional study of ‘care left undone’ on nursing shifts in hospitals
  118. An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research
  119. Is single room hospital accommodation associated with differences in healthcare-associated infection, falls, pressure ulcers or medication errors? A natural experiment with non-equivalent controls
  120. Registered nurse, healthcare support worker, medical staffing levels and mortality in English hospital trusts: a cross-sectional study
  121. Patient satisfaction and non-UK educated nurses: a cross-sectional observational study of English National Health Service Hospitals
  122. Evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of a critical care discharge information pack for patients and their families: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial
  123. Nursing consultations and control of diabetes in general practice: a retrospective observational study
  124. One size fits all? Mixed methods evaluation of the impact of 100% single-room accommodation on staff and patient experience, safety and costs
  125. Association of 12 h shifts and nurses’ job satisfaction, burnout and intention to leave: findings from a cross-sectional study of 12 European countries
  126. Safe staffing for nursing in emergency departments: evidence review
  127. Ward and shift level nurse staffing, vital signs observations and patient outcomes: observational study using routinely collected data
  128. Ensuring the reporting quality of publications in nursing journals: A shared responsibility?
  129. Evidence shows high-calibre nurses are an investment in safety
  130. EXPERTS 1--experiences of long-term life-limiting conditions among patients and carers: protocol for a qualitative meta-synthesis and conceptual modelling study
  131. Skill mix, roles and remuneration in the primary care workforce: Who are the healthcare professionals in the primary care teams across the world?
  132. Evaluating a major innovation in hospital design: workforce implications and impact on patient and staff experiences of all single room hospital accommodation
  133. Choose your tool wisely: U charts are more informative than run charts with or without tests of significance. A comment on Unbeck et al. (2014), Unbeck et al. (2013) and Kottner (2014)
  134. Practice nursing: what do we know?
  135. The role of the dementia specialist nurse in acute care: a scoping review
  136. One size does not fit all: a qualitative content analysis of the importance of existing quality improvement capacity in the implementation of Releasing Time to Care: the Productive Ward™ in Saskatchewan, Canada
  137. Nurses’ Shift Length and Overtime Working in 12 European Countries
  138. Treatment-related problems experienced by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy: a scoping review
  139. The role of pilot testing for a randomised control trial of a complex intervention in critical care
  140. Methodological considerations when translating “burnout”
  141. Staffing and education of nurses and hospital mortality in Europe–Authors' reply
  142. Dirt and disgust as key drivers in nurses' infection control behaviours: an interpretative, qualitative study
  143. Nurse staffing and education and hospital mortality in nine European countries: a retrospective observational study
  144. Open access publication & the International Journal of Nursing Studies: All that glitters is not gold
  145. Providing critical care patients with a personalised discharge summary: A questionnaire survey and retrospective analysis exploring feasibility and effectiveness
  146. Infection prevention as “a show”: A qualitative study of nurses’ infection prevention behaviours
  147. Nurse patient ratios, skill mix and work futures
  148. Editorial Board
  149. A necessary evil? Nurses and the use of physical restraints in the care of older people
  150. Development and Testing of the Patient-Reported Chemotherapy Indicators of Symptoms and Experience
  151. The rise and rise of the systematic review
  152. The sustaining effects of Tai chi Qigong on physiological health for COPD patients: A randomized controlled trial
  153. Prevalence, patterns and predictors of nursing care left undone in European hospitals: results from the multicountry cross-sectional RN4CAST study
  154. Structural characteristics of hospitals and nurse-reported care quality, work environment, burnout and leaving intentions
  155. “The damage I could do…”– Qualitative evaluation of a low-fidelity medication administration simulation that generates error as a learning experience for pre-registration nursing students
  156. ‘Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care
  157. Measurement decisions in nursing and midwifery research
  158. Effectiveness of Critical Care Discharge Information in Supporting Early Recovery From Critical Illness
  159. Qualitative or quantitative? Developing and evaluating complex interventions: time to end the paradigm war
  160. Is a larger specialist nurse workforce in cancer care associated with better patient experience? Cross-sectional study
  161. Designing a national clinical audit of nutritional care in health and social care settings: consideration and future directions
  162. Is “failure to rescue” derived from administrative data in England a nurse sensitive patient safety indicator for surgical care? Observational study
  163. 50th Anniversary Editorial: Building on firm foundations
  164. The use of chewing gum to enhance recovery after bowel surgery
  165. Telephone follow-up for type 2 diabetes mellitus
  166. Outcomes sensitive to nursing service quality in ambulatory cancer chemotherapy: Systematic scoping review
  167. Implementing large‐scale quality improvement
  168. Developing user centred critical care discharge information to support early critical illness rehabilitation using the Medical Research Council's complex interventions framework
  169. Patient safety, satisfaction, and quality of hospital care: cross sectional surveys of nurses and patients in 12 countries in Europe and the United States
  170. Editorial: Failure to rescue: improving nursing care for older people
  171. Can-do approach
  172. Excellence in action
  173. What is a nursing research journal?
  174. Involving Users in the Development of Effective Critical Care Discharge Information: A Focus Group Study
  175. Organisational quality, nurse staffing and the quality of chronic disease management in primary care: Observational study using routinely collected data
  176. Pharmacist supplementary prescribing: A step toward more independence?
  177. A good investment
  178. Charlotte Paterson and colleagues respond to Margaret McCartney
  179. Authors' response
  180. Acupuncture for ‘frequent attenders’ with medically unexplained symptoms: a randomised controlled trial (CACTUS study)
  181. Traditional acupuncture for people with medically unexplained symptoms: a longitudinal qualitative study of patients’ experiences
  182. “Somebody else’s problem?” Staff perceptions of the sources and control of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  183. Nurse forecasting in Europe (RN4CAST): Rationale, design and methodology
  184. Economic evaluation of nurse staffing and nurse substitution in health care: A scoping review
  185. Organizing and delivering diabetes education and self-care support: Findings of scoping project
  186. Ways of assessing the economic value or impact of research: is it a step too far for nursing research?
  187. The adoption, local implementation and assimilation into routine nursing practice of a national quality improvement programme: the Productive Ward in England
  188. Peer review—Beyond the call of duty?
  189. Support worker regulation: the NNRU report explained
  190. Telephone follow-up to improve glycaemic control in patients with Type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled trials
  191. Hospital admissions for asthma, diabetes and COPD: is there an association with practice nurse staffing? A cross sectional study using routinely collected data
  192. Moving forward with evidence based indicators and indicator based evidence: a continuing journey. Author's response to Simon et al. (2010)
  193. Reliability assessment and approaches to determining agreement between measurements: Classic methods paper
  194. How a focus on outcomes can help gauge quality
  195. Is pressure sore prevention a sensitive indicator of the quality of nursing care? A cautionary note
  196. Nurse staffing and quality of care in UK general practice: cross-sectional study using routinely collected data
  197. Nursing Research Methods
  198. RN+RN=better care? What do we know about the association between the number of nurses and patient outcomes?
  199. Impact of organisation and management factors on infection control in hospitals: a scoping review
  200. To whom are we writing?
  201. The association between stress, self-esteem and childhood acceptance in nursing and pharmacy students: a comparative cross-cultural analysis
  202. Effect of performance feedback on tracheal suctioning knowledge and skills: randomized controlled trial
  203. Do Specialist Community Public Health Nurses Assess Risk Factors for Depression, Suicide, and Self-Harm Among South Asian Mothers Living in London?
  204. What motivates people to enter professional nursing?
  205. The size, extent and nature of the learning disability nursing research base: A systematic scoping review
  206. Nurses' job satisfaction in their early career: is it the same for all branches of nursing?
  207. Metrics for nursing
  208. What does “international” mean for an “international” journal?
  209. Is satisfaction a direct predictor of nursing turnover? Modelling the relationship between satisfaction, expressed intention and behaviour in a longitudinal cohort study
  210. A Japanese version of the Perceived Stress Scale: cross-cultural translation and equivalence assessment
  211. Duplicate publication and ‘salami slicing’: Ethical issues and practical solutions
  212. Investigating the dynamics of nurse migration in early career: A longitudinal questionnaire survey of variation in regional retention of diploma qualifiers in England
  213. Job satisfaction trends during nurses' early career
  214. The art of losing ….? A response to the question ‘is caring a lost art?’
  215. Is it worth it? The value of nursing and the value of educated nurses
  216. Learning Disability and Other Intellectual Impairments
  217. Perceived Stress Scale--Japanese Version
  218. Telephone follow-up for type 2 diabetes mellitus
  219. ‘… And midwifery’: Time for a parting of the ways or a closer union with nursing?
  220. A Japanese version of the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: Translation and equivalence assessment
  221. Effectiveness of intermediate care in nursing-led in-patient units
  222. Chewing gum for postoperative ileus
  223. Effectiveness of nursing-led inpatient care for patients with post-acute health care needs: secondary data analysis from a programme of randomized controlled trials
  224. Editorial: Outcomes of variation in hospital nurse staffing in English hospitals
  225. Self-assessment of health and social care needs by older people
  226. Evaluation of a MS Specialist Nurse Programme
  227. Moving elderly inpatients to a transitional care facility reduced hospital stay but increased time to transfer to long term care
  228. Screening for autism in pre-school children in primary care: Systematic review of English Language tools
  229. Effectiveness of intermediate care delivered in nurse-led units
  230. Intermediate care in nursing-led units – a comprehensive overview of the evidence base
  231. Health problems and health-related quality of life in people with multiple sclerosis
  232. Letter
  233. Economic evaluation of a nursing-led inpatient unit: the impact of findings on management decisions of service utility and sustainability
  234. Care needs and point prevalence of post-acute patients in the acute medical wards of an Italian hospital
  235. Nurse led care: Comment in This week in the BMJ is misleading
  236. Science and art in reviewing literature
  237. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Cross-Over Pilot Study to Assess the Effects of Long-Term Opioid Drug Consumption and Subsequent Abstinence in Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients Receiving Controlled-Release Morphine
  238. Evidence-based practice: a deconstruction and postmodern critique: book review article
  239. Post-acute intermediate care in nursing-led units: a systematic review of effectiveness
  240. Review: evidence from individually randomised trials shows that hip protectors do not reduce hip fractures in elderly people
  241. Advanced practice nurse directed transitional care reduced readmission or death in elderly patients admitted to hospital with heart failure
  242. An application of the mini review to a complex methodological question: how best to research public health nursing and service quality?
  243. Good practices that address continuity during transition from child to adult care: synthesis of the evidence
  244. A Japanese version of the perceived stress scale: translation and preliminary test
  245. Older people in accident and emergency: implications for UK policy and practice
  246. A Survey of Chronic Noncancer Pain Patients Prescribed Opioid Analgesics
  247. Comments on “The relationship of internal locus of control, value placed on health, perceived importance of exercise and participation in physical activity during leisure”
  248. Impact of clinical nurse specialists in multiple sclerosis - synthesis of the evidence
  249. Applying evidence is problem not just for educational quality
  250. The M–C–M′ cycle and social capital
  251. The effectiveness of current approaches to workplace stress management in the nursing profession: an evidence based literature review
  252. Methodological strategies for the identification and synthesis of 'evidence' to support decision-making in relation to complex healthcare systems and practices
  253. Nursing-led in-patient units for intermediate care: a survey of multidisciplinary discharge planning practice
  254. The disappearing sample: researcher and research ability
  255. The impact of foot massage and guided relaxation following cardiac surgery: a randomized controlled trial
  256. Evidence informing practice: introducing the mini-review
  257. A pilot study into the problematic use of opioid analgesics in chronic non-cancer pain patients
  258. Substitution of a nursing-led inpatient unit for acute services: randomized controlled trial of outcomes and cost of nursing-led intermediate care
  259. Opioid Drugs: A Comparative Survey of Therapeutic and "Street" Use
  260. Research Training for Social Scientists. A Handbook for Postgraduate Researchers
  261. ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF A NURSING-LED INTERMEDIATE CARE UNIT
  262. Nurses' use of computer databases to identify evidence for practice -a cross-sectional questionnaire survey in a UK hospital
  263. Early discharge plus home based rehabilitation reduced length of initial hospital stay but did not improve health related quality of life in patients with acute stroke
  264. Prompt hospital discharge with home care improved physical health and community reintegration and reduced initial length of hospital stay after acute stroke
  265. The challenge of implementing evidence-based healthcare
  266. Reflexology
  267. Progress in measuring nursing outcomes
  268. An Introduction to Intellectual Impairment
  269. The Future of Services for Intellectual Impairment