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Self-scheduling

Self-scheduling is a model where the nursing staff's working hours are planned in a way that will fit both the organisation's staffing requirements and the personnel's shift preferences. A proper scheduling is important for the delivery of good patient care, best resource utilisation and employee satisfaction.

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SBU Enquiry Service

Consists of structured literature searches to highlight studies that can address questions received by the SBU Enquiry Service from Swedish healthcare or social service providers. We assess the risk of bias in systematic reviews and when needed also quality and transferability of results in health economic studies. Relevant references are compiled by an SBU staff member, in consultation with an external expert when needed.

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Question

What effect does self-scheduling have on the employee satisfaction of nurses and the patient outcomes?

Identified studies

  1. Butler M, Collins R, Drennan J, Halligan P, O'Mathuna DP, Schultz TJ, et al. Hospital nurse staffing models and patient and staff-related outcomes. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2011:Cd007019.
  2. Pearson A, Pallas LO, Thomson D, Doucette E, Tucker D, Wiechula R, et al. Systematic review of evidence on the impact of nursing workload and staffing on establishing healthy work environments. Int J Evid Based Healthc 2006;4:337-84.
  3. Koning C. Does self-scheduling increase nurses' job satisfaction? An integrative literature review. Nurs Manag (Harrow) 2014;21:24-8.
  4. Shullanberger G. Nurse staffing decisions: an integrative review of the literature. Nurs Econ 2000;18:124-32, 146-8.

Literature search

Literature search.pdf

Project group

Miriam Entesarian Matsson at SBU.

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