DEADLY CONSEQUENCES: THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF AMERICA'S NURSING SHORTAGE
A frightening report from Stuart Anderson of the National Foundation for American Policy. First, the report reviews data on patient mortality rates and points out strong evidence to suggest that the fewer nurses per patient in a hospital, the more likely the patient will die. And it's not a slight correlation. Increasing a nurses patient load from four to eight, according to an American Medical Association study, is accompanied by a 31% increase in mortality. How much more blunt does the message need to be? The current blockade of foreign nurses is literally killing people.
Read More: http://www.nfap.com/pdf/0709deadlyconsequences.pdf
Read More: http://www.nfap.com/pdf/0709deadlyconsequences.pdf
