Building Staffing Science

Health care and nurse staffing present interesting challenges for nursing and health care leaders.

The recently released Evidence and Excellence in Staffing (2nd edition) creates a framework for research and organizational improvement that leads to the development and sharing of best practices.

A new model for staffing excellence has emerged with five core concepts.

This new position paper calls for generating and disseminating 25–30 new best practices in nurse staffing across the care continuum over the next 3 years.