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| Christine M DuffieldSummaryAffiliation: University of Technology Country: Australia Publications
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Do we really understand how to retain nurses?Linda O'Brien-Pallas
Health Human Resources, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Nurs Manag 14:262-70. 2006..To compare views of nurse executives with those of nurses who have left the profession on the importance of retention strategies...
Nursing unit managers, staff retention and the work environmentChristine M Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Clin Nurs 20:23-33. 2011..This paper examined the impact of leadership characteristics of nursing unit managers, as perceived by staff nurses, on staff satisfaction and retention...- Nursing staffing, nursing workload, the work environment and patient outcomesChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Broadway, NSW, Australia
Appl Nurs Res 24:244-55. 2011.... 
How much time do nurses have for patients? A longitudinal study quantifying hospital nurses' patterns of task time distribution and interactions with health professionalsJohanna I Westbrook
Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2052, Australia
BMC Health Serv Res 11:319. 2011..We aimed to quantify how nurses distribute their time across tasks, with patients, in individual tasks, and engagement with other health care providers; and how work patterns changed over a two year period...- A Master Class for nursing unit managers: an Australian exampleChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, PO Box 222, Sydney, Lindfield NSW 2071, Australia
J Nurs Manag 13:68-73. 2005..To design and provide a Master Class leadership course for nursing unit managers... - Are skills learned in nursing transferable to other careers?Christine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Nurs Leadersh (Tor Ont) 18:68-82. 2005..To determine the influence of skills gained in nursing on the transition to a non-nursing career... - Nursing skill mix and nursing time: the roles of registered nurses and clinical nurse specialistsChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust J Adv Nurs 23:14-21. 2005..Comparing work activities enables employers to begin to answer the question: Are skilled nursing personnel being used effectively and efficiently?.. - Methods of measuring nursing workload in AustraliaChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Collegian 13:16-22. 2006..This review highlights the implications of not understanding fully the impact of excessive workload on patient and nurse safety outcomes... - The impact of hospital structure and restructuring on the nursing workforceChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Aust J Adv Nurs 24:42-6. 2007..Changes to hospital structures (restructuring) have been an important part of these reforms. A significant impact of current approaches to restructuring is the loss of, or changes to, nursing management roles and functions... - Staffing, skill mix and the model of careChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia
J Clin Nurs 19:2242-51. 2010..The study aimed to explore whether nurse staffing, experience and skill mix influenced the model of nursing care in medical-surgical wards... - National regulation in Australia: a time for standardisation in roles and titlesChristine Margaret Duffield
WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing, Midwifery and Health Development, Australia
Collegian 18:45-9. 2011..Often these new roles have been poorly defined, and there is no national consistency in nomenclature. The recent move to a national nursing registration system provides an opportunity for change... - Nurses who work outside nursingChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology Sydney, Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia
J Adv Nurs 47:664-71. 2004..Reasons for leaving include workload, unsafe work environments and harassment. The relationship between these factors and the time nurses spend in the profession has not been explored... - Career paths beyond nursing and the contribution of nursing experience and skills in attaining these positionsChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, P O Box 222, Lindfield, NSW 2070, Sydney, Australia
Int J Nurs Stud 39:601-9. 2002..Reasons provided for leaving the nursing workforce included reaching a ceiling in nursing or wishing to develop themselves in another direction. Respondents had also undertaken a wide range of additional qualifications... - Nursing: a stepping stone to future careersChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney, PO Box 222, Lindfield, Sydney, Australia
J Nurs Adm 34:238-45. 2004..To identify the range of positions to which registered nurses moved when they left the profession and to explore the perceptions of respondents about the skills and experiences gained from performing nursing work... - Profile of first-line nurse managers in New South Wales, Australia, in the 1990sC Duffield
Nursing and Health Services Management, Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Adv Nurs 36:785-93. 2001..To compare the profile of first-line nurse managers in 1999 with those in 1989... - Advanced nursing practice: a global perspectiveChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Collegian 16:55-62. 2009..To review the titles, roles and scope of practice of Advanced Practice Nurses internationally... - Staff satisfaction and retention and the role of the nursing unit managerChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Collegian 16:11-7. 2009..It illustrates that there are no typical wards; each ward functions differently. The importance of nursing leadership at the ward level to job satisfaction, satisfaction with nursing and intention to leave, cannot be overstated... - Churn: patient turnover and case mixChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Nurs Econ 27:185-91. 2009.... - A review of workload measures: a context for a new staffing methodology in Western AustraliaDi Twigg
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Hospital Avenue, Nedlands, Perth, WA 6008, Australia University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Int J Nurs Stud 46:131-9. 2009..Nurse hours per patient day (NHPPD), which classifies wards into various groupings, was applied to all public hospitals in Western Australia... - Decision-making in clinical nursing: investigating contributing factorsKerry Hoffman
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Adv Nurs 45:53-62. 2004..Values, knowledge, clinical setting and stress have also been identified as being important to decision-making, with various rankings given by different researchers... - Patient transfers in Australia: implications for nursing workload and patient outcomesNicole Blay
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
J Nurs Manag 20:302-10. 2012..To discuss the impact of patient transfers on patient outcomes and nursing workload... - Factors impacting on career progression for nurse executivesPhyllis Moran
University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Contemp Nurse 38:45-55. 2011.... - A comparison of the nursing practice environment in mental health and medical-surgical settingsMichael A Roche
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Nurs Scholarsh 42:195-206. 2010..To examine the differences between characteristics of the work environment of nurses working in mental health and general acute inpatient nursing settings... - Implications of staff 'churn' for nurse managers, staff, and patientsChristine Duffield
Centre of Health Services Research, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Nurs Econ 27:103-10. 2009..A greater understanding of the human and financial costs and consequences, and a willingness to change established practices at the institutional and ward level, are needed... - Work sampling: valuable methodology to define nursing practice patternsDianne Pelletier
Center for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Nurs Health Sci 5:31-8. 2003..It is intended to enhance readers' appreciation of work sampling's potential value to nurses and other health professionals, and to enhance the understanding of the difference between work sampling and time-and-motion studies... - Australian nurses' perception of the impact of their postgraduate studies on their patient care activitiesDianne Pelletier
Centre for Health Services Management, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney Kuring gai Campus, PO Box 222, Lindfield, NSW 2070, Australia
Nurse Educ Today 23:434-42. 2003..The results indicate that their postgraduate education had a positive to strongly positive impact on the majority of items. These as well as those items identified as not being affected will also be presented and discussed... - Understanding the nursing workforce: a longitudinal study of Australian nurses six years after graduate studyDianne Pelletier
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Aust J Adv Nurs 23:37-43. 2005..The provision of skilled and competent advanced nurses is clearly a goal of postgraduate education. An increasing shortage of skilled and qualified nursing staff to provide the required level of care is evident in Australia... - Documentation and the transfer of clinical information in two aged care settingsDianne Pelletier
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Aust J Adv Nurs 22:40-5. 2005..Funding of aged care facilities in the public hospital system in Australia is dependent on documentation of care... - Qualifications and experience: how well prepared are nurse managers compared to health service executives?Christine Duffield
Nursing and Health Services Management, Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Aust Health Rev 25:182-90. 2002..Increased use of mentoring may provide opportunities for professional advancement in wider administrative areas... - Violence toward nurses, the work environment, and patient outcomesMichael Roche
University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia
J Nurs Scholarsh 42:13-22. 2010..To relate nurses' self-rated perceptions of violence (emotional abuse, threat, or actual violence) on medical-surgical units to the nursing working environment and to patient outcomes... - The nursing workforce in Canada and Australia: two sides of the same coinChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Aust Health Rev 25:136-44. 2002..Factors that make the current shortage more serious and different than at other times are also presented. Despite the shortage of registered nurses, their replacement with unskilled workers jeopardizes the quality of care... - The complexities of documenting clinical information in long-term care settings in AustraliaDianne Pelletier
Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
J Gerontol Nurs 28:8-12. 2002.... - Casualisation of the nursing workforce in Australia: driving forces and implicationsReta Creegan
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Aust Health Rev 26:201-8. 2003.... - Nursing work and the use of nursing timeChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney, NSW, Australia
J Clin Nurs 17:3269-74. 2008..The aim of this paper is to explore some of the drivers for change and their impact and recommend a way forward to optimising nurses' work in the hospital environment... - Issues and challenges in the mental health workforce developmentMichael Roche
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney NSW, Australia
Contemp Nurse 25:94-103. 2007..This article will provide an overview of the issues and challenges confronting the development of a sustainable mental health nursing workforce... - The causes and consequences of nursing shortages: a helicopter view of the researchChristine Duffield
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, Sydney
Aust Health Rev 26:186-93. 2003..It is important that managers in Australian health care settings understand these issues in order to work towards developing sustainable solutions for retention... - An ageing nursing workforceElizabeth M Graham
Centre for Health Services Management, University of Technology, PO Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia
Aust Health Rev 34:44-8. 2010..One of the contributing and growing factors is the ageing of the workforce, but methods of retaining older employees have been given very little attention... - Caring for the disadvantaged: a time of opportunity and challenge. Interview by Melissa SweetLynn Kemp
Aust Nurs J 16:12-3. 2008 - The impact of nurse turnover on patient, nurse, and system outcomes: a pilot study and focus for a multicenter international studyPat Griffin
University of Toronto and Canadian Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institutes of Health Research, CHSRF/CIHR, National Chair in Nursing Human Resources
Policy Polit Nurs Pract 7:169-79. 2006..The results provided significant evidence to justify increased emphasis on nurse retention strategies and the creation of healthy work environments for nurses... - Recruitment of nurses working outside nursingChristine Duffield
J Nurs Adm 36:58-62. 2006 - Comparison of U.S., Canadian, and Australian participants' performance on the Algase Wandering Scale-Version 2 (AWS-V2)Jun-Ah Song
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Res Theory Nurs Pract 17:241-56. 2003..However, variations in care environments may contribute to differences in attention shifting. Further, limited sample size, particularly among Australians and Canadians, make findings tentative... - Clinical handover: can we afford the time?Kim Forrester
School of Medicine, Griffith University
J Law Med 13:176-9. 2005 - Nurse turnover: a literature reviewLaureen J Hayes
Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
Int J Nurs Stud 43:237-63. 2006..Further research is needed to examine the impact of turnover on health system cost, and how nurse turnover influences patient and nurse outcomes... - Who will be there to nurse? Retention of nurses nearing retirementLinda O'Brien-Pallas
Nursing Effectiveness, Utilization and Outcomes Research Unit, Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, 50 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada
J Nurs Adm 34:298-302. 2004..To determine the impact on nursing work-force supply of delaying retirement... - Making nursing work: breaking through the role confusion of advanced practice nursingGlenn Gardner
Clinical Nursing Queensland University of Technology and Royal Brisbane and Women s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
J Adv Nurs 57:382-91. 2007..This paper reports a study to develop a research-informed model of the service parameters and an analysis framework for advanced practice nursing roles...