The Scottish Safe Staffing Act at Baseline: Quantitative Findings
Few nurses report that the act's overarching goal is being met at the point of implementation. Although most nurses see nursing as a long-term career, workforce disruption is anticipated through routine turnover, promotion, or retirement, requiring workforce retention policies. Whether the act's complex provisions can be achieved and its goals fulfilled may not reverse the trend of exiting nurses. The complexity of the approach will be a challenge to achieving the objective of safe staffing. Therefore, this approach to achieving safe staffing may be too complex to be recommended widely. These remain urgent questions for Scottish policymakers, nurse leaders, and researchers.
Authors
- Iain Atherton (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1822-3240)
- Daniela Golinelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6433-1752)
- Lindsey Lee (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2065-8913)
- Azwa Shamsuddin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2400-5888)
- Eileen T. Lake (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-3436)
- Sharon Kiely
- Domenique Villani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0929-0633)
Institutions
- Royal College of Nursing (GB)
- Edinburgh Napier University (GB)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Published
- 2025-04-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jnu.70013
- Primary Topic
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- University of Pennsylvania
- Sigma Theta Tau International
- National Institute of Nursing Research