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    • Nursing Administration
    • Organizational Science

    Background:

    • Positive correlations exist between nursing professional development (NPD) staffing and organizational outcomes.
    • Optimal structures for NPD departments remain underexplored in healthcare settings.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the relationship between different nursing professional development (NPD) department structures and patient outcomes in acute care hospitals.
    • To identify if specific NPD organizational structures are associated with better publicly reported patient outcomes and satisfaction.

    Main Methods:

    • Employed an organizational participatory research method.
    • Examined NPD department structures within acute care hospital systems.
    • Analyzed relationships between department structures and publicly reported patient outcomes and satisfaction data.

    Main Results:

    • Hospitals with centralized NPD departments demonstrated significantly fewer unplanned readmissions for pneumonia compared to those with hybrid structures.
    • No other statistically significant differences in patient outcomes or satisfaction were found between the examined NPD department structures.

    Conclusions:

    • A centralized nursing professional development department structure may be associated with improved patient outcomes, specifically reduced pneumonia readmissions.
    • Further research is warranted to explore the nuances of NPD department structures and their broader impact on healthcare quality.