Open AccessAssociation of Clinical Nursing Work Environment with Quality and Safety in Maternity Care in the United States
Author(s) -
Rebecca R S Clark,
Eileen T. Lake
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mcn, the american journal of maternal child nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.326
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1539-0683
pISSN - 0361-929X
DOI - 10.1097/nmc.0000000000000653
Subject(s) - association (psychology) , nursing , maternity care , work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , patient safety , medicine , psychology , health care , political science , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , epistemology , law , psychotherapist
Maternal outcomes in the United States are the poorest of any high-income country. Efforts to improve the quality and safety of maternity care are frequently reported by individual hospitals, limiting generalizability. The purpose of this study is to describe maternity care quality and safety in hospitals in four states.