Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

Publication Data

• Title Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care
• Author Suzanne Gordon
• Contributors John Buchanan, Tanya Bretherton
• Publisher ILR
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Ithaca, N.Y.
• Language English

Contents

Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States
Not out of thin air
The hospital industry response
Ratios redux
Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot
How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work
Winning ratios in Victoria
Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment
What we know about nurse staffing
Arguments against and alternatives to ratios.

Topics

• Nursing services :: Standards :: California
• Nursing services :: Standards :: Australia :: Victoria
• Nursing services :: California :: Personnel management :: Statistical methods
• Nursing services :: Australia :: Victoria :: Personnel management :: Statistical methods
• Hospitals :: California :: Administration :: Statistical methods
• Hospitals :: Australia :: Victoria :: Administration :: Statistical methods
• Ratio analysis

Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care by Suzanne Gordon. ISBN 9780801446832. Published by ILR in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.