Research project

Framework for safe Staffing and Skill Mix (Ireland): Research Programme

Lead researchers:

Professor Peter Griffiths
Research funder:

The Health Research Board
Status:

Not active

Project overview

This ongoing programme of research, funded by the Irish HRB and conducted in partnership with colleagues at University College Cork, is exploring the implementation of safe staffing policies in Ireland covering a variety of clinical setting including general wards, emergency departments and has now extended to care homes.

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Peter Griffiths

Chair in Health Services Research

Research interests

Health workforce
Epidemiology
Nursing

Connect with Peter

Email: peter.griffiths@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Estimating the economic cost of nurse sensitive adverse events amongst patients in medical and surgical settings

Aileen Murphy, Peter Griffiths, Christine Duffield, Noeleen M Brady, Anne Philomena Scott, Jane Ball & Jonathan Drennan, 2021, Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(8), 3379-3388

DOI: 10.1111/jan.14860

Type: article

A protocol to measure the impact of intentional changes to nurse staffing and skill-mix in medical and surgical wards

Jonathan Drennan, Christine Duffield, Anne Philomena Scott, Jane Ball, Noeleen M. Brady, Aileen Murphy, Darren Dahly, Eileen Savage, Paul Corcoran, Josephine Hegarty & Peter Griffiths, 2018, Journal of Advanced Nursing

DOI: 10.1111/jan.13796

Type: article