Staffing Ratios and Burnout

Nurse staffing, burnout, and health careeassociated infection

Policy Statement on Mandated Staffing Ratios

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) recognizes the need for adequate nurse-staffing levels to ensure the quality of patient care delivered in hospitals and health systems throughout our nation. The number of patients for which a nurse can provide safe, competent and quality care is dependent upon multiple factors. Studies have concluded that nurse-staffing levels are a critical...

Staffing Ratios in a Rehabilitation Program.

Staffing ratios for professional personnel functioning in an intensive physical rehabilitation program at Rancho Los Amigos Hospital, representing experience with treatment of patients with severe physical disabilities on the one hand and budget pressures and procedures on the other, are as follows:Physician to patients..... 1:33Nursing service per patient per day (including registered nurse, l...

Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care-associated infection.

BACKGROUND Each year, nearly 7 million hospitalized patients acquire infections while being treated for other conditions. Nurse staffing has been implicated in the spread of infection within hospitals, yet little evidence is available to explain this association. METHODS We linked nurse survey data to the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council report on hospital infections and the ...

Appropriateness of Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in Nursing Homes

Study on Staffing Requirements in Nursing Facilities. --The Secretary shall conduct a study and report to Congress no later than January 1, 1992, on the appropriateness of establishing minimum caregiver to resident ratios and minimum supervisor to caregiver ratios for skilled nursing facilities serving as providers of services under title XVIII [Medicare] of the Social Security Act and nursing ...