• Home
  • About
  • Research spotlight
  • Impact
    • PhD students
  • Media items
  • Related initiatives
    • Related projects
    • Magnet collaborative >
      • About
      • Apply
  • About
  • About
RN4CAST​: Registered nurse forecasting in Europe
  • Home
  • About
  • Research spotlight
  • Impact
    • PhD students
  • Media items
  • Related initiatives
    • Related projects
    • Magnet collaborative >
      • About
      • Apply
  • About
  • About

ABOUT RN4CAST

RN4CAST studied how organizational features of hospital care impact on nurse recruitment, nurse retention and patient outcomes. In 2009-2010 we surveyed fully qualified professional nurses and patients in about 500 general acute care hospitals in 12 European countries (Belgium, England, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland), and collected discharge data from hundreds of thousands of patients. Several countries have replicated the study since, and new nation-wide studies in Portugal (2014), Italy (2015-2016) and Cyprus (2015-2016) have been initiated.
RN4CAST is le
d by Walter Sermeus (KU Leuven, Belgium) and Linda Aiken (University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, US). It was initiated through funding from 2009 to 2011 by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. Several RN4CAST reports can be found on the European Commission's Community Research and Development Information Service website (progress report 2009-2010, progress report 2010-2011, final report 2011). The main study findings -- which for example linked nurse staffing and education to patient mortality -- were published after the funding period had ended.  Still, more work is underway. We therefore recommend you regularly visit our research spotlight section ​to discover more insights into the policy-relevant evidence generated from RN4CAST. Our work has been published in the leading medical, health care sciences and nursing journals between 2009 and 2017. Because of the complex research issues and strong methodology applied in RN4CAST, you will notice that several articles are committed to a methodological-substantive synergy, with an agenda for both research and policy.
Enjoy!
RN4CAST is the greatest endeavor to highlight the important role of health professionals in providing safe patient care.

Walter Sermeus & Linda Aiken 

CONSORTIUM DIRECTORS

Picture

Walter Sermeus

Full Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium
​RN4CAST DIRECTOR
Picture

Linda Aiken

Full Professor
​University of Pennsylvania, US
​RN4CAST CO-DIRECTOR

RN4CAST BELGIUM

Luk
​Bruyneel

Post-doctoral researcher
​KU Leuven, Belgium
Picture

Koen
​Van den Heede

Post-doctoral researcher
​KU Leuven, Belgium
Picture

Emmanuel
​Lesaffre

Full Professor
KU Leuven, Belgium
Picture

RN4CAST US

Herb
​Smith

Full Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US
Picture

Douglas Sloane

Full Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US

​
Picture

Matt
​McHugh

Associate Professor
University of Pennsylvania, US
Picture

RN4CAST ENGLAND

Anne Marie Rafferty

Full Professor
King's College London, UK
Picture

Peter Griffiths

Full Professor
University of Southampton, UK
Picture

Jane
​Ball

Post-doctoral researcher
University of Southampton, UK
Picture

RN4CAST SWEDEN

Carol Tishelman

Full Professor
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Picture

Rikard Lindqvist

Post-doctoral researcher
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
​
Picture

Lisa
​Smeds

Post-doctoral researcher
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Picture

RN4CAST GERMANY

Reinhard Busse

Full Professor
Technical University Berlin, Germany
Picture

Claudia
​Maier

Researcher
Technical University Berlin, Germany
​
Picture

Britta
​Zander

Researcher
Technical University Berlin, Germany
Picture

RN4CAST IRELAND

Marcia Kirwan

Lecturer
Dublin City University, Ireland
Picture

Anne Matthews

Full Professor
Dublin City University, Ireland
Picture

Anne
​Scott

Full Professor
​Ireland

Picture

RN4CAST SWITZERLAND

Sabina De Geest

Full Professor
University of Basel, Switzerland
Picture

Dietmar Ausserhofer

Post-doctoral researcher
​
Picture

Maria Schubert

Post-doctoral researcher
Picture

RN4CAST THE NETHERLANDS

Theo Van Achterberg

Full Professor
KU Leuven,
​Belgium
Picture

Maud Heinen

Senior Researcher
Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Picture

Lisette Schoonhoven

Professor,
University of Southampton, England

Picture

RN4CAST FINLAND

RN4CAST ITALY

RN4CAST CYPRUS

Juha Kinnunen

Full Professor
Eastern University of Finland
Picture

Loredana Sasso

Full Professor
​University of Genua, Italy
Picture

Evridiki Papastavrou

Full Professor
Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus
Picture

RN4CAST PORTUGAL

RN4CAST SPAIN

RN4CAST GREECE

Elvio 
Henriques de Jesus

Professor
​Catholic University Portugal
Picture

Teresa
​Moreno-Casbas

Director of Unit
​Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
Picture

John
​Mantas

Full Professor
University of Athens, Greece
Picture

RN4CAST POLAND

RN4CAST NORWAY 

Tomasz Brzostek

Full Professor
Jagiellonian University Krakow, Poland
Picture

Ingeborg 
​
Stromseng Sjetne

Researcher
​Knowledge Center for the Health Services, Norway
Picture

Inger
​
Margrethe Holter

Norwegian Nurses Association
​​
Picture

RN4CAST S-AFRICA

RN4CAST CHINA

RN4CAST BOTSWANA

Hester
​Klopper

Full Professor
​Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Picture

Liming
​You

Sun Yat-sen University, China
Picture

Sheila
​Shaibu

Full Professor
University of Botswana
Picture

CONTACT US

  • Home
  • About
  • Research spotlight
  • Impact
    • PhD students
  • Media items
  • Related initiatives
    • Related projects
    • Magnet collaborative >
      • About
      • Apply
  • About
  • About