Missed infection control care and healthcare associated infections: A qualitative study

Nurse staffing, missed care, quality of care and adverse events: A cross‐sectional study

“…After controlling for RN age, education, years as RN and unit type, 1‐unit increase in missed care score increased the relative proportion of nurses reported frequency of quality of care as poor (40%), medication error (128%), infection (66%), complaint (131%), verbal abuse (53%) and adverse event (68%). Similarly, previous studies have found that higher missed care was also associated with patient adverse events such as medication errors, falls, pressure ulcers, critical incidents and nosocomial infections (Aiken et al, 2018; Bail et al, 2020; Chaboyer et al, 2021; Cho et al, 2020; Simpson & Lyndon, 2017), and quality of care as poor and nurses' lower perception of quality of care (Recio‐Saucedo et al, 2018; Smith et al, 2020).…”

“…Missed nursing care is an issue worldwide and previous studies in the United States (Campbell et al, 2020), Europe (Eskin Bacaksiz et al, 2020;Senek et al, 2020), Asia (Labrague et al, 2020) and Australia (Henderson et al, 2017) have shown that large numbers of nurses leave care undone. Further significant international research studies have demonstrated the impact of missed nursing care on patient outcomes, including poor overall quality of care, increased mortality, decreased patient satisfaction and increased patient adverse events such as medication errors, falls, pressure ulcers, critical incidents, infections and readmission (Aiken et al, 2018;Bail et al, 2020;Chaboyer et al, 2021;Recio-Saucedo et al, 2018).…”

A Global Overview of Missed Nursing Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review

“…48 This finding echoed pre-pandemic reports that correlated staffing issues with a higher frequency of unfinished or missed nursing care. 5,8,40 Furthermore, mounting evidence collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic strongly associated low nurse staffing levels with an increased likelihood of adverse events, 10 increased patient mortality, 1 increased cases of hospital-acquired conditions, 49 and low nursing care quality and patient satisfaction. 6 Despite evidence linking certain components of the nurse work environment to a lower incidence of nursing care compromise, 34,35,40 this review identified only 3 studies that investigated this association, while only one study 40 examined how organizational characteristics contributed to and/or reduced missed nursing care during the pandemic, suggesting the need for more studies in this critical area.…”

“…48 This finding echoed pre-pandemic reports that correlated staffing issues with a higher frequency of unfinished or missed nursing care. 5,8,40 Furthermore, mounting evidence collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic strongly associated low nurse staffing levels with an increased likelihood of adverse events, 10 increased patient mortality, 1 increased cases of hospital-acquired conditions, 49 and low nursing care quality and patient satisfaction. 6…”

Availability of Human Resources, Facilities, Communications and Missed Nursing Care

“…J. Kim, Yoo, and Seo 2018;Verrall et al, 2015). The inadequate nursing staff impacts adverse patient service side effects such as falling patients, infection incidence due to hospitalization, medication errors, and death in the hospital (Haegdorens et al, 2019;Amiri, 2020;Bail et al, 2020). Insufficient nursing staff triggers nurses to delay taking actions that are not prioritized to complete other more priority nursing actions (Mantovan, 2020).…”