A poll by the state’s largest nurses union found 73 percent of voters support a law setting a maximum number of patients each nurse could be required to care for. The union, which is advocating for ...

Low levels of nurse staffing results in missed care opportunities, which can lead to patient deaths, according to a thesis from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. Researchers examined the relationships ...

Safe nurse staffing levels are a ‘must have’ to ensure patient safety and quality of care, the World Health Organization (WHO ...

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Hospitals with more nurses on staff and better nurse-patient communication tend to receive higher scores on patients’ satisfaction with pain management, according to new research. Hospitals with more ...

The Advance Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation was ordered by the state to hire an independent consultant and mandated staffing ratios. (C-HIT photo.) Credit: C-HIT The Advance Center for Nursing ...

A new synthesis of research studies from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality indicates that hospitals with lower nurse staffing levels, with nurses who spent less time with patients, or ...

A new study on nurse staffing in BMJ found that the hazard of death increased by 3% for every day a patient experienced nurse staffing levels below England's ward mean. Researchers looked at over ...

The New Year for California hospitals was supposed to bring state-mandated nurse staffing guidelines. But it looks like that’s one more resolution deferred. State regulators said at the end of ...