Nurse to patient ratios: lies, damned lies, and statistics.(Legislative Updates)Gonzalez, Lillian
Research is limited regarding the impact of staffing models on specific infection control practices (ICP) such as wound dressing, oral hygiene, or patient education. To describe nurses' perceptions of the impact of nurse–patient ratios on ICP. A cross-sectional survey using a questionnaire with ...
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-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...
Mandatory nurse-patient ratios.(Professional Issues)(Report)Tevington, Pamela
Patient-to-nurse ratios and outcomes of moderately preterm infants. Pediatrics 2010; 125 (2): 320–326. Article Google Scholar Castrodale V, Rinehart S . The golden hour: improving the stabilization of the very low birth-weight infant. Adv Neonatal Care 2014; 14 (1): 9–14. Article ...
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...
VANCOUVER — British Columbia has established minimum nurse-to-patient ratios for a range of different hospital settings and is investing $237 million to ensure they are met. They include a minimum of one nurse for every four patients in adult medical and surgical units, 24...
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the peer-reviewed literature supports specific, minimum nurse-patient ratios for acute care hospitals and whether nurse staffing is associated with patient, nurse employee, or hospital outcomes. BACKGROUND: Hospital care may be compromised by forces that have increased pa...
Low clinician-to-patient ratios can lead to operational challenges and errors when manually entering vital signs into the EHR. This is especially true in the Medical Surgical Department, where nurses must capture vital signs for many patients. Incorporating an electronic vital signs documentatio...