Nurse Patient Ratio
I am responding to Robin and Sarah. Robin, your research has been a heated topic for many decades. Research continues and provides hospital administers and lawmakers on how nurse patient ratio can affect the patient’s outcome but not much has changed over the years.
Thirty years ago, when I was a new graduate nurse, I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center, three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses were not able to provide proper care for their patients, and obtained needle sticks due to
Thirty years ago, when I was a new graduate nurse, I remember the exhausting 12-15 hour days I experienced working in a medical center, three days in a row and being responsible for fifteen patients while working with a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Certified Nurses Assistant. During that time I worked on a medical-surgical/telemetry floor where we also had patients on ventilators. Nurses were not able to provide proper care for their patients, and obtained needle sticks due to