Missed nursing care: report to the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation: Tasmanian Branch
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2016
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Blackman, I.
Willis, E.
Henderson, J.
Luisa, T.
Xiao, L.
Verrall, C.
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From June through to the end of July 2015, the missed care survey was conducted through the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation Tasmanian Branch. Six hundred and forty eight nurses, midwives and four personal care workers completed the survey. This survey was conducted at a time when the Tasmanian government was undertaking changes to the public health care system that will ultimately result in the centralisation of service delivery. Data from this survey suggests that Tasmanian nurses are currently reporting less missed care than colleagues in other states, with nurses in rural settings rating most of the causes of missed care as less important than their metropolitan counterparts. The centralisation of service delivery is likely to create greater demands upon metropolitan services and deplete resources for care delivery in rural settings. As well as creating issues in relation to access and equity of services this change has the potential to reduce the quality of the services provided.
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Copyright 2015 The authors