Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care / Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture and politics of health care workPublication details: Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2008.Description: ix, 272 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 080144683X : HRD
  • 9780801446832
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.17/30683 22
LOC classification:
  • RT85.5 .G67 2008
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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