Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care / Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton
- Bib ID:
- 4514621
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
- Description:
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- Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, c2008
- ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780801446832
- 080144683X
- Series:
- Culture and politics of health care work.
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
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- Nursing services -- Standards -- California
- Nursing services -- Standards -- Victoria
- Nursing services -- California -- Personnel management -- Statistical methods
- Nursing services -- Victoria -- Personnel management -- Statistical methods
- Hospitals -- California -- Administration -- Statistical methods
- Hospitals -- Victoria -- Administration -- Statistical methods
- Ratio analysis
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2008
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