Monica F. Rochman's research while affiliated with University of Pennsylvania and other places

Publications (2)

Article
Background Despite the importance of adequate hospital nurse staffing, California is the only state with minimum nurse-to-patient ratio mandates. The health care workforce is historically “countercyclical”—exhibiting growth during economic recessions when employment in other sectors is shrinking. Purpose This study was to examine how staffing mand...
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Background: Although nurses are the most likely first responders to witness an in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) and provide treatment, little research has been undertaken to determine what features of nursing are related to cardiac arrest outcomes. Objectives: To determine the association between nurse staffing, nurse work environments, and IHC...

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... The only major policy response to chronic hospital nurse understaffing and poor work environments in 20 years has been the implementation in 2004 of a mandated minimum nurse staffing requirement in hospitals throughout California (Aiken et al., 2010;McHugh et al., 2011a. The unfunded mandate resulted in patients in California hospitals currently receiving, on average, 2 to 3 more hours a day of registered nurse care than patients in other states (Dierkes et al., 2021). Similar safe nurse staffing legislation has been considered in other states but despite research estimating improved patient outcomes and cost savings (Lasater et al., 2021a(Lasater et al., , 2021b, no other states have implemented minimum hospital nurse staffing requirements. ...
... These results were in the same line with Aiken (2018) (37) and Busse (2012) (38) who reported that nearly half of the staff nurses described their units as providing fair patients safety and quality of care. This finding was contraindicated by McHugh (2016) (39) who stated that most of staff nurses perceived a poor level of patients' safety work environments which made complete involvement to evidencebased safety interventions hard. Correlation and relation between factors affecting quality of nursing handover process among ICU staff nurses and patients' safety issues. ...