Quality of Patient Care: Link to Nurse Staffing

There have been many studies done on nursing. But it was done slowly as issues arose. From 1955-65 nursing changed from functional nursing to team nursing. 1975-85 it changed from team nursing to Primary nursing/total patient care. In 1990s changed focus to cost and efficiency and since 2000 we have a shortage crisis.

There was lot of research done with a lot of inconsistent results about RN hours and patient satisfaction, mortality, morbidity and the function of nurses. But despite the avalanche of research it was difficult to change things because the research was not done well. In 1999 the question was again brought up, what is the effect of nurse staffing and the shortage of RNs on patients? Between 1999 to 2006 jobs will grow 23%. How much nursing care is available for patients? Since the 1980s the hours had changed form 6 hours to 8 hours a day for nurses in hospitals. But patients are in hospitals less so therefore less nursing care given and a study found that hospitals

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