* Winner of Nursing Outlook’s Excellence in Policy Award
Nurse overtime has been used to handle normal variations in patient census and to control chronic understaffing. By 2010, 16 states had regulations to limit nurse overtime. We examined mandatory overtime regulations and their association with mandatory and voluntary overtime and total hours worked by newly licensed registered nurses (NLRNs).
2012
Bae, S.H., Brewer, C.S., & Kovner, C.T.
Nursing Outlook. 60(2), 60-71.
doi:10.1016/j.outlook.2011.06.006
