Mandatory Staffing Study

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Mandatory staffing is an issue that needs to be addressed on the business side, patient side and the nursing side. According to Rajcki a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in October 2002 linked higher patient-to-nurse ratios in hospitals with increased patient mortality and increased nurse dissatisfaction with their jobs. The study, which looked at outcome data from more than 230,000 surgical patients discharged from 168 hospitals, found that each additional patient per nurse was associated with a 7% increase in the likelihood of patient mortality, and a 15% increase in job dissatisfaction for the nurses. (Rajcki, 2009) A number of studies within the last 10 years have shown strong associations between patient

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