Join Us – Quality Patient Care

Easy ways to advocate for for safe, quality care in Minnesota hospitals

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.

Short staffing has a solution.

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Nurse Story

A 7 Percent Increase in Risk of Injury or Death

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.”