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Patients' needs for nursing care: beyond staffing ratios
Christina M Graf1, Sally Millar, Charlene Feilteau
1Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, GRB 015, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
The Journal of Nursing Administration
|February 14, 2003
Abstract:
The current focus on staffing ratios as a means to assure appropriate care for patients ignores the very real differences among patients in their needs for nursing care. Implementing a system that identifies these needs provides a more accurate indication of staffing requirements. In addition, storing the raw data from the system at their most basic level provides opportunities for more extensive analyses and informed, data-driven decision-making related to resource allocation, performance improvement, and productivity enhancement.