nurse-patient ratio

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nurse-patient ratio

The ratio of nurses on a particular floor, ward or unit to the number of patients.
The greater the anticipated acuity of care, as in the ICU, the lower is the ratio in a high-quality healthcare facility (1:6 is the normal ratio in a medical-surgical unit, 1:2 in an ICU).
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Simply put, are we to believe that higher post-surgical mortality is related to a hospital's patient-nurse ratio, as argued in the first article, or to the academic degree preparation of bedside nurses, as argued in the second?
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Simply put, are we to believe that higher post-surgical patient mortality is related to a hospital's patient-nurse ratio, as argued in the first article, or to the academic degree preparation of bedside nurses, as argued in the second?
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Differentiating between pre-arrest and failure-to-rescue

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