Professional References

Safe Staffing / Healthy Workplaces

New Zealand, like most Western countries, is facing the challenge of creating and maintaining safe staffing and healthy workplaces for nurses and midwives, in a sector faced with growing demand for services. This Report is an attempt to meet that challenge in a practical, comprehensive way, building on the best practice throughout New Zealand.
Safe Staffing (433KB PDF)

Magnet Hospital

The Magnet Recognition Program® was developed by the American Nurses Credentialing Center to recognize health care organizations that provide the very best in nursing care and uphold the tradition within nursing of professional nursing practice. The program also provides a vehicle for disseminating successful practices and strategies among nursing systems.
Magnet Hospital (46KB PDF)

Nurse Executive Competencies Assessment Tool

The AONE Nurse Executive Competencies (originally published in the February 2005 issue of Nurse Leader) describe skills common to nurses in executive practice regardless of their educational level or titles in different organizations. They are presented as information for both nurse leaders and those who employ or work with them.
Nurse Executive Competencies Assessment Tool (174KB PDF)

Nursing Workload Summary Matrix

Assessing the management of nursing workload in hospitals.
Nursing Workload Summary Matrix (289KB PDF)

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