Here are four insights:
1. The responses showed a correlation between fewer nurses, more missed care and an increase in patient mortality.
2. For patients who underwent common, non-life threatening surgeries, researchers associated a 10 percent missed care rate to a 16 percent higher patient mortality risk within 30 days of surgery.
3. Seventy-four percent of those surveyed said they did not perform care due to time constraints.
4. Jane Ball, RN, a study researcher aid doctoral student at Karolinska Institutet’s department of learning, informatics, management and ethics, said, “We found a significant association between mortality rates and the volume of missed care owing to lack of nursing time, which supports the inference of a causal connection between registered nurse staffing and patient mortality.”
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