Knowledge Nursing Leadership

• Supplemental Nurse Staffing in Hospitals and Quality of Care by Linda H. Aiken, PhD, RN, FAAN; Ying Xue, DNSc, RN; Sean P. Clarke, PhD, RN, FAAN; Douglas M. Sloane, PhD This article originally appeared in The Journal of Nursing Administration, July/August 2007.

  Summary: Concerns about staffing have led to political action, including mandated nurse staffing legislation in California. Within this debate about appropriate staffing, the use of supplemental or temporary nurses to bolster short-term nurse staffing levels is widely viewed in negative terms. Temporary nurses include those employed by external agencies, internal hospital per diem pools, and permanently employed nurses “floated” from their permanent units.

• "Stepping Outside of `Yesterday Thinking’: Preparing Nurse Managers for a New World Order," by Franklin A. Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN, President, Education and Training, Cross Country Staffing. This article originally appeared in Nurse Leader Magazine (American Organization of Nurse Executives), July/August, 2003.

  Summary: Facilities that make nurse management training a priority find a direct correlation to their low turnover rate in managerial and staff nursing positions and their leadership development and succession planning.