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In Minnesota, there are standards for the number of children per daycare provider, the number of firefighters on duty, and the number of EMTs in an ambulance. Yet there are no standards for the number of patients a nurse can be assigned to at one time.

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Nurse Story

Nurses promise patients quality care

Nurse story: nurses are disappointed with hospital care too

In this month's American Journal of Nursing, Maureen Shawn Kennedy reports there's a gap between what nurses know is quality patient care and what they see on a day-to-day basis.  She says: "There are far too many instances in which nursing practice is substandard."And that's even in magnet hospitals.  Some nurses say they'd never leave their own family members alone in a hospital.  A survey of 7500 nurses showed that two-fifths or 40 percent said they wouldn't want their family members to be a patient in a hospital where they worked. Kennedy cites the reasons as insufficient staffing and resources-a lack of a minimum standard of care.  Doing too much with too little, including scheduling patterns that don't allow nurses to monitor patients continuously; and  inexperienced nurses who are forced into making life or death decisions. Nurses want to keep the promise to patients of delivering the care they know…
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