TY - JOUR T1 - Higher levels of nurse staffing are not associated with reduced adverse events among postoperative children if surveillance levels are low JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 122 LP - 122 DO - 10.1136/eb-2013-101554 VL - 17 IS - 4 AU - Eileen Lake Y1 - 2014/10/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/17/4/122.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Voepel-Lewis T, Pechlavanidis E, Burke C, et al. Nursing surveillance moderates the relationship between staffing levels and pediatric postoperative serious adverse events: a nested case-control study. Int J Nurs Stud 2013;50:905–13.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMed The level of nurse staffing influences the priority nurses give to surveillance; nursing units should be adequately staffed to support the surveillance of all patients. Managers should routinely check with staff nurses to learn which patients they are monitoring most frequently. Nurses caring for postoperative patients should give extra attention to patients with comorbidities. Nursing systems research should focus on the pathways through which nursing system features influence care processes and patient outcomes. Over the past decade, considerable evidence from cross-sectional studies has established that patient outcomes are better in hospitals with better nursing features, with staffing being the dominant feature studied.1 Other prominent … ER -