Lower levels of nursing staff are associated with delayed care and serious adverse outcomes for patients in emergency departments

Affiliations

• ¹ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia [email protected].
• ² Emergency Department, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Southport, Queensland, Australia.
• ³ Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, Griffith University Faculty of Health, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁴ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
• ⁵ Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, Kings College, London, UK.