The Science of Patient Safety
“Each additional patient above four that a nurse is assigned to care for produced a 7 percent increase in injury or death, a 23 percent increase in nurse burnout and a 15 percent increase in job dissatisfaction.”
Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Mortality, Nurse Burnout, and Job Dissatisfaction Journal of the American Medical Association, October, 2002 Read More
The Reality of Risk
Real nurses report about real shifts, with real lives on the line
“3 RNs, one had 7 patients, one had 6 and charge nurse had 5 patients. High acuity patients with many, many requests. Difficult to properly assess a patient with TONs of interruptions.”
