Nurse shortages in hospitals
Conditions
Interventions
Group 1: In the cross-sectional mixed-methods study, key informants who are involved in the hospital’s nursing human resources activities (e.g. hospital directors, human resources directors, nurse man
Sponsors
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Fakultät VI, Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Department für Versorgungsforschung
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Key informants who are involved in the hospital’s nursing human resources activities (e.g. hospital directors, human resources directors, nurse managers or superiors, head nurses, directors of nursing, chief nursing officers, or human resources officers) will be included. Only key informants from hospitals located in the Northern Dutch-German border region are included (Ems-Dollart Region). This entails hospitals from the Dutch provinces Friesland, Groningen, Overijssel, and Drenthe and from the German districts Emden, Aurich, Wittmund, Wilhelmshaven, Leer, Friesland, Wesermarsch, Ammerland, Oldenburg, Delmenhorst, Cloppenburg, Vechta, Emsland, Grafschaft Bentheim and Osnabrück and the city of Oldenburg and Osnabrück. For a better comparability, only general hospitals are included into the sample. This entails hospitals, which offer inpatient care and acute care for the population.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Key informants who are not involved in the hospital’s nursing human resources activities will be excluded. Key informants from hospitals which are not located in the Ems-Dollart region and those from hospitals that exclusively offer psychotherapeutic, psychiatric, neurological, and/or geriatric care, and rehabilitation hospitals/clinics, and day/night clinics are excluded.
Design outcomes
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| A second objective is to identify strategies as well as measures to counteract nursing staff shortage and to recruit and retain nurses staff for the hospital. This will be answered mainly by means of qualitative interviews. | — |
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
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| The aim of the study is firstly to compare the nursing staff situation in hospitals in the northern Dutch-German border region. This will be analysed mainly by the questionnaire survey. | — |
Countries
Germany, Netherlands
Contacts
Public ContactHelge Schnack
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Fakultät VI, Medizin und Gesundheitswissenschaften, Department für Versorgungsforschung, Abteilung Rehabilitation und Prävention
Outcome results
None listed