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November 5, 2012 | Journal Article
Employing supplemental nurses could help meet the challenges of an aging nursing workforce, the projected future shortage of nurses, and an increasingly diverse U.S. population.
August 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
How do nurse faculty members spend their time? How do they assess key aspects of their work-life? In 2010 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education program (EIN) conducted a nationwide survey of full-time nu ...
February 26, 2012 | Story
Limiting nurses' overtime and overall hours is important to patient safety.
January 30, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
A recent study from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded RN Work Project takes a close look at state rules capping nurses’ mandatory overtime hours. As of 2010, 16 states had imposed such caps, with the goal of avoiding errors caused by long ho ...
August 27, 2011 | Journal Article
How states regulate nurses' work hours does relate to whether nurses work mandatory versus voluntary overtime, as well as the total number of hours worked. But research is needed to determine how these relationships impact nurse and patient outcomes.
February 26, 2012 | Story
New studies identify 10 clinical reasoning practices that nurses use to prevent medical errors, and link nurses' long working hours and physical inactivity on the job to obesity.