Over the past two decades healthcare organizations,professional associations and the Institute of Medicine have warned the American public that failure to improve the practice environment for nurses and other health professionals would threaten our ability to provide safe, quality and effective patient care.1,2,3 The basis for these profound observations was the increasing complexity of acute-care environments, the increasing demand for nursing care, the aging of the American workforce and the lack of data on what work areas require improvement. In 2002, the American Academy of Nursing launched an investigation supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to identify practice environment and workflow practices that result in workflow inefficiencies, nursing dissatisfaction and turnover and ultimately affect the nurse’s ability to meet the demand for safe, quality patient car

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