The article reports on research reported in a 2012 issue of the "British Medical Journal" which found that adequate nurse to patient ratios are associated with decreased nurse burnout rates and improved patient outcomes including mortality and patient satisfaction....
Safety in Numbers argues that an indispensible element of hospital patient safety is mandated nurse-to-patient ratios and that those will be achieved only when nurses force the change on hospitals. Hospital, on the other hand, is a journalistic account of one hospital;...
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.
Nurse-to-patient ratios 来自 EconPapers 喜欢 0 阅读量: 16 作者: Hershbein, Brad J 摘要: This brief is based on information presented at the 25th Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, held on March 30, 2005 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. 关键词: Nurse and patient Hospitals - Staff...
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...
Dix says guaranteeing minimum nurse-to-patient ratios has been shown to improve care and reduce burnout among nurses facing an ever-increasing workload. Palliative units will have to maintain one nurse for every three patients, while rehabilitation units will have a one-to-fi...
Unless Congress mandates a federal standard for nurse-patient ratios, those deaths will continue. Do nurses matter? A Care Commission report said the Arnothill House nursing home in Falkirk should be run with a nurse-patient ratio of one to four, instead of the one to seven it then had. ...
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...
CALIFORNIA'S NURSE-TO-PATIENT RATIOS: EIGHT YEARS LATER, WHAT DO WE KNOW? Purposes/Aims: Based on the public discourse of the potential effects, both positive and negative, of implementing nurse-to-patient ratios in California's hospitals, a policy impact study was conducted. This study identif...
The guidelines specify ranges of nurse to patient ratios across infant acuity levels, as well as requisite nurse training and experience. For instance, infants with the lowest acuity levels have a recommended nurse to patient ratio of 1 to 3 or 4. In contrast, the highest acuity infants have...