Nurses' Working Conditions: Implications for Infectious Disease1

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Stone, Patricia W. ; Clarke, Sean P. ; Cimiotti, Jeannie ; Correa-de-Araujo, Rosaly
• Description:
  Staffing patterns and nurses' working conditions are risk factors for healthcare-associated infections as well as occupational injuries and infections. Staffing shortages, especially of nurses, have been identified as one of the major factors expected to constrain hospitals' ability to deal with future outbreaks of emerging infections. These problems are compounded by a global nursing shortage. Understanding and improving nurses' working conditions can potentially decrease the incidence of many infectious diseases. Relevant research is reviewed, and policy options are discussed.
• Subjects:
  • Synopsis
  • nurse working conditions
  • patient safety
  • healthcare-associated infections
  • occupational injuries
  • emerging infectious disease
  • synopsis
  • Communicable Diseases
  • Cross Infection
  • Disease Outbreaks
  More +
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 10(11):1984-1989.
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  10
• Issue:
  11
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/14637/cdc_14637_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 212.70 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9362680c3b6fb17588310793f143711657c98a70121bcfafbbb71f4d55bca9b6