Nurse forecasting in Europe (RN4CAST): Rationale, design and methodology

Current human resources planning models in nursing are unreliable and ineffective as they consider volumes, but ignore effects on quality in patient care. The project RN4CAST aims innovative forecasting methods by addressing not only volumes, but quality of nursing staff as well as quality of patient care.A multi-country, multilevel cross-sectional design is used to obtain important unmeasured factors in forecasting models including how features...