need more responses to my survey: Staffing adequacy

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A couple of weeks ago I posted a link to my survey that I am doing to complete my masters in Nursing Business and Health Systems at the University of Michigan. I got a few responses but not enough. Does anyone have ideas for me on where to get nurses to take my survey. It's for direct care nurses in a hospital setting only. Only takes about 10 minutes to compete. The link is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RNStaffingsurvey. Any ideas would be a great help.

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Specializes in Acute Care Cardiac, Education, Prof Practice.

Done :) Though the second part was a bit confusing.

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Specializes in Cardiac/Progressive Care.

Done as well.

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I did it too. And yes, the second part was quite confusing.

Wish it hadn't pertained to JUST my last shift worked. My last shift didn't happen to be a "typical" shift for me, so my answers would have been quite different on most other days.

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Specializes in Developmental Disabilites,.

I too thought the second part was confusing.

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Specializes in Ortho/ Neueo, L&D.

2nd part confusing, but did it anyway. L&D is always nuts for staffing

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Specializes in Home Health.

Done. If it had pertained to my last 6 months of work, my answers would have been dramatically different. My last shift was a Sunday and was much "slower" than a typical M-F shift.

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Specializes in long term care Alzheimers Patients.

Done also thought the 2nd part was confusing

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Specializes in Emergency, Telemetry, Transplant.

I also just completed this and I would say that Part 2 made no sense. This just illustrates the gap between academia and the real world (then again, this is UM, so go figure...)

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Specializes in Nurse Scientist-Research.

Yea, I completed it and really just hit random answers for part 2.

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Specializes in ER, SANE, Home Health, Forensic.

I too completed it!

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Thank you all for taking the survey. The second part that some of you find confusing is the NASA Task Load index. It's a validated tool that they use in aeronautics. I thought I'd try and see how it works for nursing. The purpose is to help analyze staffing. They use it for air traffic controllers as well as flight crews etc. Each survey gets a score. The idea is not to have too high of a score. I am planning to compare the scores to things like how many discharges you had, how many admissions, how many patients you take care of as well as things like the effect of experience and level of education.

Again, the link is: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/RNStaffingsurvey

Please send it on to any other direct care nurses that you know and thanks again.

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