The chapter should provides a review of empirical literature on key concepts in the study: nursing shortage and its short term solutions mainly overtime and floating, nurse outcomes, quality of care and patient safety outcomes, and their inter-relationships. The chapter should organized as follows 1) Search Strategy 2) Overview on nursing shortage and its impact on nursing outcome, quality of care and patient safety 3) Short term solutions of nursing shortage with focus on overtime and floating. 4) Nurse Outcomes: This section discusses theoretical perspectives on (1) nurse job satisfaction, (2) intention to leave, and the empirical literature on their associations with overtime and floating. 5) Quality of Care and Patient Safety Outcomes: This section reviews the literature on (1) quality of care and (2) patient safety outcomes, and their relationships with overtime and floating. 6) Impact of overtime and floating on nurse outcomes, quality of care and patient safety outcomes. 7) Overtime and floating within the Middle Eastern context. 8) Chapter Summary. 9) Conceptual Framework. All references should be recent from 2009 till now Plagiarism less than 10%
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