Strategies to prevent missed nursing care: an international qualitative study based upon a positive deviance approach.

Jessica Longhini; Evridiki Papastavrou; Georgios Efstathiou; Panayiota Andreou; Renate Stemmer; Christina Ströhm; Maria Schubert; Susanne Wolf‐Linder; Alvisa Palese

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Strategies to prevent missed nursing care: an international qualitative study based upon a positive deviance approach.

May 12, 2021

Longhini J, Papastavrou E, Efstathiou G, et al. J Nurs Manag. 2021;29(3):572-583.

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This international qualitative study explored strategies employed by nurse managers and directors to prevent missed nursing care. Most strategies, including staffing ratios, communication, and empowering nurse leaders, required complex interventions at the system level, indicating missed nursing care is not merely a nursing issue. Nurse managers play a key role in implementing strategies at the nursing and hospital level.

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