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-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...
Do nurse/patient ratios work? Nurse/patient ratios have always been contentious. But the experience of two states--one Australian, one American--which have legislated nurse/patient ratios shows they have a positive impact on nurses' professional esteem and ability to give the patient care they ...
3(p29)4(p 33) Nurse to patient ratios by acuity were calculated for all infants in each NICU (adjusted for coassignments). Compliance was defined as meeting the minimum threshold. For 3 acuity levels (1, 2, and 3), the guideline specifies a range, and the maximum number of infants ...
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;...
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 ...
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...
In this study, we directly evaluate whether patient-to-nurse staffing ratios are associated with clinical outcomes for patients admitted with sepsis in 116 New York state hospitals. We simultaneously evaluate the effects of hospital adherence to the SEP-1 evidence-based care bundle on patient outcome...
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.