NURSE STAFFING AND VETERAN OUTCOMES IN THE VETERANS HEALTH ADMINISTRATION’S COMMUNITY LIVING CENTERS
Lana Brown, C Heath Gauss, Pamela Billings, Jade Moore, Linda Sawyer, Diane Sparks, Sheila Cox Sullivan · 2023
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Lana Brown and co-authors published this 2023 study testing whether more nursing hours mean better outcomes for veterans in long-term care. Evidence from hospitals links richer staffing to better results, but the nursing homes of the Veterans Health Administration, its Community Living Centers, had never been checked. Records from 134 centers paired nursing hours per patient day with six standard quality measures.
Four outcomes showed no linear link to staffing at all: functional improvement, worsening mobility, catheter use, and urinary infections. Two did move with staffing, falls with major injury among them, reaching statistical significance. The authors present the split verdict honestly. In this setting, hours alone do not buy quality across the board, and managers should look past headcounts to how care is organized.
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| CREATOR | Lana Brown, C Heath Gauss, Pamela Billings, Jade Moore, Linda Sawyer, Diane Sparks, Sheila Cox Sullivan |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |