Critical Competency: Determining and Communicating the Number of Nurses You Must Hire

Critical Competency: Determining and Communicating the Number of Nurses You Must Hire
posted by jlittle 499 days 19 hours 45 minutes ago

The price of inadequate numbers of registered nurses to meet patient care demands in hospitals is unacceptably high. On any given day, if demand exceeds the number of available nurses, patients will be diverted elsewhere or, worse yet, they will be accepted into the organization and overextend the nurses who will care for them. The results, threats to patient safety and nurse dissatisfaction, have contributed significantly to the problems we experience in acute care today.

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