Nurse Patient Staffing Ratio

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It is crucial to maintaining the appropriate nurse-to- patient staffing ratio for providing safe patient care outcomes. Nursing shortage lowers the nurse to patient ratio that can increase medical and medication errors, patient complication, mortality and also increase dissatisfaction and burnout among nurses. According to researcher Shekelle, he found the significant relationship between high patient-to-nurse ratio and mortality rate. For example, in 232 342 patients discharges, post surgery of some hospitals in Pennsylvania, 2 percent (4535 patients) died within 30 days of hospitalization. As the result, this study found the difference between 4:1 and 8:1 ratios of the patient each nurse has may cause about 1000 deaths of the total amount

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