California's current regulations require set nurse-patient ratios for critical care units and neonatal intensive care units. The new law does not specify a minimum nurse-to-patient ratio; instead, it requires that the state Department of Health Services establish those standards by January 1, 2002...
Nurse groups are focused on fixing what they say are untenable nurse-to-patient ratios. As legislation mandating staff ratios looms, AI and virtual care may offer a way forward.
Limiting any stronger conclusions is the lack of an evaluation of an intervention to increase nurse staffing ratios. The formal costs of increasing the nurse-patient ratio cannot be calculated because there has been no evaluation of an intentional change in nurse staffing to improve patient outcomes...
nurse-patient ratio Acronyms The ratio of nurses on a particular floor, ward or unit to the number of patients. The greater the anticipated acuity of care, as in the ICU, the lower is the ratio in a high-quality healthcare facility (1:6 is the normal ratio in a medical-surgical unit...
A nurse-to-patient ratio law has been endorsed by the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee. Jill Furillo, chief negotiator for nurses in Cook County, Illinois, comments on the implementation of the California law in Illinois. The proposed nurse-to-patient ratio...
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"Our findings demonstrate that the nurse-to-patient ratio mandate in California was effective in increasing registered nurse staffing in hospitals," wrote Dr.McHugh. Previous Penn research showed that nurse overload affects patient safety. For every patient added to a nurse's workload of four, ...
Are Mandatory Nurse-Patient Ratios the Answer? California is the only state that currently has legislation supporting a minimum nurse staffing law. Similar laws in other states have failed to pass. New York, Texas, Florida, New Jersey, Iowa, Minnesota, and Washington, DC, are conside... A ...
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