REVIEW article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Occupational Health and Safety
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1539108
This article is part of the Research TopicPatient and Medical Staff Safety and Healthy Work Environment in the 21st CenturyView all 38 articles
Progress of research on methods of human resource allocation in operating room nursing
Provisionally accepted
- 1School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
- 2Guangdong Provincial People's Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China
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The operating room is one of the most critical departments in a hospital, and the allocation of human resources for operating room nursing has a critical impact on operating room operations and surgical quality. This review systematically reviews current research on the content and methods of operating room nursing human resource allocation, including the quantity allocation, structure and quality allocation of operating room nursing human resources, and describes the specific operation, advantages and disadvantages of each allocation method, to provide a reference basis for the construction of a rationalized operating room nursing human resource allocation system.
Keywords: Operating theatre1, human resource allocation2, Nurses3, nursing management4, human resource5 1 Introduction
Received: 03 Dec 2024; Accepted: 05 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Qiaoling, Bijun, Tiemei, Yangle, Xiuran, Shifang, Hui and Xiaoying. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Yan Xiaoying, School of Nursing, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China
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