If nursing is to be viewed as a product, as is the intention with casemix (Queensland Health 1992), then a clear basis for its pricing must be made which refiects its true economic worth. Gates (1990) proposes that nursing services could become an income-producing service if provided ...
”says De’Ann Richter, RN, who was traditionally trained at Gordon University near Atlanta and worked for a while in trauma/surgery. At first, oncology nursing seemed to her like the “big leagues” since these nurses were caring for the sickest of patients....
This work has been replicated with large populations of nurses in Europe and the United Kingdom showing that, as in the United States, poor nurse–patient ratios are associated with higher rates of patient morbidity—new illnesses acquired while in hospital; and mortality—deaths to due to poor...