Increased job satisfaction associated with lower HAI rates, study finds

Higher levels of job satisfaction among intensive care unit nurses, lower rates of missed nursing care and increased levels of nurse staffing are associated with fewer hospital-acquired infections, a study  found. Published in the October 2023 issue of Intensive Critical Care Nursing, the cross-sectional study included 314 nurses from eight ICUs who completed a survey on safety attitudes, quality of care, missed care, nurse staffing levels and frequency of HAIs. The authors collected secondary data on common HAIs. They concluded that improvements to nurse staffing would decrease nursing workloads, which in turn, could reduce missed care, increase job satisfaction and reduce HAIs. (AHRQ Journal of Patient Safety article, 8/16/23)