The Productive Ward programme to provide high quality care: findings from a scoping review

Introduction. The Productive Ward: Releasing Time to Care™ is a ward processes - and environments- improvement program intended to help nurses to spend more time on patient care, thus promoting patient safety. Aims. To define the state-of-science in research on the Productive Ward (PW) program, the set of outcomes documented to date, as well as the factors facilitating or hindering its implementation in practice. Methods. A scoping review based on the framework proposed by Levac et al. in 2010, further refined by the Joanna Briggs Institute in 2017, was performed on 2021. Methods and findings have been reported according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses - Scoping Reviews statement. Results. 11 studies have been published from 2014 to 2021, mainly in Europe and England. According to the findings, the PW program has an impact on nurses, patients and the organization. Factors facilitating the PW programme implementation rely on engaging communicati...