Nurse shortages especially affect black patients
Nurses.com News Older black patients are three times more likely than older white patients to suffer poorer outcomes after surgery, including death, when cared for by nurses with higher workloads,...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Black Patients Have Increased Chance of Dying When Nurses...
By Patricia Eakin, RN, BSN, CEN, PASNAP President In her groundbreaking 2002 study, Dr. Linda Aiken of the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing concluded that each patient over four assigned to...
View ArticleD.C. Council chairman to propose bill boosting nursing staffs at hospitals
By Lena H. Sun and Mike DeBonis, WashingtonPost.com D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson plans to introduce legislation Tuesday that would require the city’s hospitals to boost nurse staffing to make...
View ArticleNursing by the numbers considered
By Andrew Seder, PSDispatch.com How many nurses should a hospital maternity ward have? How about the intensive care or neonatal units? Should they be the same numbers at rural and inner city hospitals?...
View ArticleNot Enough Nurses in Neonatal Intensive Care Units
New study reveals striking understaffing for critically ill babies compared with national guidelines Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, rwjf.org Princeton, N.J.—A new study reveals that the health of...
View ArticleWe Need More Nurses
Op-Ed by Alexandra Robbins, New York Times SEVERAL emergency-room nurses were crying in frustration after their shift ended at a large metropolitan hospital when Molly, who was new to the hospital,...
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