HealthLeaders Media May 3, 2024
These new AACN guidelines have the potential to impact how CNOs handle staffing in their health systems.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The AACN has published a new set of staffing guidelines for adult clinical care to help guide leaders’ approach to nurse staffing.
– The standards were made to help health systems create healthier work environments, and for CNOs to use as a potential blueprint for their staffing strategies.
The American Association of Critical Care Nurses (AACN) hast published the AACN Standards for Appropriate Staffing in Adult Critical Care, in an effort to help health systems tackle nurse staffing.
The standards
The seven key standards are designed to help leaders “incorporate appropriate staffing into everyday operations and patient care,”...