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Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, Tanya Bretherton
Publisher: ILR Press
Category: Book
List Price: $26.00
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Sales Rank: 104286
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 271
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 080144683X
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1730683
EAN: 9780801446832
ASIN: 080144683X
Publication Date: May 2008
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Product Description
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 current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden hospital budgets, while reducing management flexibility in addressing patient needs. Safety in Numbers is the first book to examine the arguments for and against ratios. Utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research, Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton weigh the cost, benefits, and effectiveness of ratios in California and the state of Victoria in Australia, the two places where RN staffing levels have been mandated the longest. Their book shows how hospital cost-cutting and layoffs in the 1990s created larger workloads and deteriorating conditions for both nurses and their patients--leading nursing organizations to embrace staffing level regulation. The authors provide an in-depth account of the difficult but ultimately successful campaigns waged by nurses and their allies to win mandated ratios. Safety in Numbers then reports on how nurses, hospital administrators, and health care policymakers handled ratio implementation. With at least fourteen states in the United States and several other countries now considering staffing level regulation, this balanced assessment of the impact of ratios on patient outcomes and RN job performance and satisfaction could not be timelier. The authors' history and analysis of the nurse-to-patient ratios debate will be welcomed as an invaluable guide for patient advocates, nurses, health care managers, public officials, and anyone else concerned about the quality of patient care in America and the world.
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