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Evaluating the effects of supplementing ward nurses on quality of newborn care in Kenyan neonatal units: protocol for a prospective workforce intervention study.
Imam, Abdulazeez; Gathara, David; Aluvaala, Jalemba; Maina, Michuki; English, Mike.
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  • Imam A; Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. abdulimam2001@yahoo.com.
  • Gathara D; Health Systems Collaborative, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. abdulimam2001@yahoo.com.
  • Aluvaala J; Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Maina M; MARCH Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
  • English M; Health Services Unit, KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya.
BMC Health Serv Res ; 22(1): 1230, 2022 Oct 04.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-36195863
BACKGROUND: Data from High Income Countries have now linked low nurse staff to patient ratios to poor quality patient care. Adequately staffing hospitals is however still a challenge in resource-constrained Low-middle income countries (LMICs) and poor staff-to-patient ratios are largely taken as a norm. This in part relates to limited evidence on the relationship between staffing and quality of patient care in these settings and also an absence of research on benefits that might occur from improving hospital staff numbers in LMICs. This study will determine the effect on the quality of patient care of prospectively adding extra nursing staff to newborn units in a resource constrained LMIC setting and describe the relationship between staffing and quality of care. METHODS: This prospective workforce intervention study will involve a multi-method approach. We will conduct a before and after study in newborn units of 4 intervention hospitals and a single time-point comparison in 4 non-intervention hospitals to determine if there is a change in the level of missed nursing care, a process measure of the quality of patient care. We will also determine the effect of our intervention on routinely collected quality indicators using interrupted time series analysis. Using three nurse staffing metrics (Total nursing hours, nursing hours per patient day and nursing hours per patient per shift), we will describe the relationship between staffing and the quality of patient care. DISCUSSION: There is an urgent need for the implementation of staffing policies in resource constrained LMICs that are guided by relevant contextual data. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate the prospective addition of nursing staff in resource-constrained care settings. Our findings are likely to provide the much-needed evidence for better staffing in these settings. TRIAL REGISTRATION: This study was retrospectively registered in the Pan African Clinical Trial Registry ( https://pactr.samrc.ac.za/Default.aspx?Logout=True ) database on the 10th of June 2022 with a unique identification number-PACTR202206477083141.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Admissão e Escalonamento de Pessoal / Recursos Humanos de Enfermagem Hospitalar Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Limite: Humans / Newborn País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: BMC Health Serv Res Assunto da revista: PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Quênia

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Admissão e Escalonamento de Pessoal / Recursos Humanos de Enfermagem Hospitalar Tipo de estudo: Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies / Qualitative_research Limite: Humans / Newborn País/Região como assunto: Africa Idioma: En Revista: BMC Health Serv Res Assunto da revista: PESQUISA EM SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Quênia