Nursing term paper on:
Implementing Patient to Nurse Ratios in the Healthcare Environment

Number of Pages 4

Summary of the nursing paper:

In 2004 California became the first state to implement mandatory patient to nurse ratios in the healthcare environment. The writer looks at the background to the implementation of this bill, including the failed attempts at passing legislation in the 1990s. The ratios themselves are discussed the arguments put forward by the hospital industry against implementation as well as the results following the implementation of the ratios are all considered. Four sources are cited in the bibliography this four page paper.

Name of the Nursing Paper File: TS14_TEnurseratio.doc

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