Nursing research
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Time pressure and, occasionally, suboptimal assessment decisions are features of nursing in acute care. ⋯ Time pressure reduced nurses' ability to detect the need and the tendency to report intervening. Thus, there were more failures to report appropriate intervention under time pressure, and the positive effects of clinical experience were negated under time pressure. More and larger scale research on the effect on clinical outcomes of time pressured nursing choices is required.
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Research evidence suggests that nurse staffing influences patient outcomes. ⋯ Nurse and physician staffing and specialization of ICUs impacted patient mortality. Associations differed in tertiary and secondary hospitals. Further investigation of the impact of organizational environments in ICUs is needed.