Is temp staff less effective than internal staff?

[Laila Ighani]

A recently published article titled Nursing Team Composition and Mortality Following Acute Hospital Admission found a statistically significant increase in the risk of death among patients exposed to days of low nurse staffing and that using temporary staff only partially reduced the risk of patient deaths. In your experience, is PRN nursing less effective than the care provided by internal staff?

Read the article here: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2822398

[Keyin Jeremiah]

for CNAs, we get great external aides sometimes, and other times, they just hide, do not help, and ignore call lights. It's important to be selective. It's great that Nursa allows facilities to favorite clinicians that do a great job and even auto-schedule them.