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Safety in Numbers : Nurse-To-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801464935
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Safety in NumbersDDC classification:
  • 362.17/30683
LOC classification:
  • RT85
Online resources:
Contents:
Safety in Numbers -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: California: Managed Care, Hospital Restructuring, and the Ratio Response -- 1. Hospital Restructuring and the Erosion of Nursing Care in California and the United States -- 2. Not Out of Thin Air -- 3. The Hospital Industry Response -- 4. Ratios Redux -- Part II: Australia: Nurses and Work Intensification in Public Hospitals in Victoria-Context, Response, and Legacies -- 5. Working Life for Nurses in the Late 1990s in Australia: A Snapshot -- 6. How Did It Come to This? The Factors Driving the Intensification of Nursing Work -- 7. Winning Ratios in Victoria -- 8. Evaluating the Impact of Ratios: An Imperfect Experiment -- Part III: Arguments and Alternatives -- 9. What We Know about Nurse Staffing -- 10. Arguments against and Alternatives to Ratios -- Conclusion: Ratios and Beyond -- Appendix: Decision of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on Nurse-to-Patient Ratios -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: The first book to examine the arguments for and against mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research to focus on two case studies (California and the Australian state of Victoria).
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Safety in Numbers -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: California: Managed Care, Hospital Restructuring, and the Ratio Response -- 1. Hospital Restructuring and the Erosion of Nursing Care in California and the United States -- 2. Not Out of Thin Air -- 3. The Hospital Industry Response -- 4. Ratios Redux -- Part II: Australia: Nurses and Work Intensification in Public Hospitals in Victoria-Context, Response, and Legacies -- 5. Working Life for Nurses in the Late 1990s in Australia: A Snapshot -- 6. How Did It Come to This? The Factors Driving the Intensification of Nursing Work -- 7. Winning Ratios in Victoria -- 8. Evaluating the Impact of Ratios: An Imperfect Experiment -- Part III: Arguments and Alternatives -- 9. What We Know about Nurse Staffing -- 10. Arguments against and Alternatives to Ratios -- Conclusion: Ratios and Beyond -- Appendix: Decision of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission on Nurse-to-Patient Ratios -- Notes -- Index.

The first book to examine the arguments for and against mandated nurse-to-patient ratios, utilizing survey data, interviews, and other original research to focus on two case studies (California and the Australian state of Victoria).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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