Safety in Numbers : Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care /

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"Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the curr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Otros Autores: Buchanan, John, 1959-, Bretherton, Tanya
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ratio analysis.
Nursing services > Standards.
Hospitals > Administration > Statistical methods.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Issues.
Ratios (Analyse financiere)
Hôpitaux > Australie > Victoria > Administration > Methodes statistiques.
Hôpitaux > Californie > Administration > Methodes statistiques.
Services infirmiers > Australie > Victoria > Personnel > Direction > Methodes statistiques.
Services infirmiers > Californie > Personnel > Direction > Methodes statistiques.
Services infirmiers > Normes > Australie > Victoria.
Services infirmiers > Normes > Californie.
Safety Management
Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
Nursing Staff, Hospital > supply & distribution
Nursing Services > manpower.
Hospitals > Australia > Victoria > Administration > Statistical methods.
Hospitals > California > Administration > Statistical methods.
Nursing services > Australia > Victoria > Personnel management > Statistical methods.
Nursing services > California > Personnel management > Statistical methods.
Nursing services > Standards > Australia > Victoria.
Nursing services > Standards > California.
Victoria.
California.
California
Australia
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States
  • Not out of thin air
  • The hospital industry response
  • Ratios redux
  • Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot
  • How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work
  • Winning ratios in Victoria
  • Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment
  • What we know about nurse staffing
  • Arguments against and alternatives to ratios.

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