{"title":"Nurse staffing law may herald benchmarks.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>California became the first state to require all patient care units in hospitals to meet fixed minimum nurse-to-patient ratios. In a hospital environment where patients are sicker, and care is more complex, according to American Nurses Association (ANA) president Beverly L. Malone, \"Cutting the numbers of RNs and substituting unlicensed aides for registered nurses are exactly the wrong moves.\" ANA's \"Principles of Nurse Staffing\" call for staffing decisions to be made on the basis of three sets of principles: those related to patient care, staff-related issues, and institution/organization concerns. The California legislation currently contains no specific numerical requirements. ANA's 10 Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators for Acute Care Settings is comprised of a series of measures that represent the nursing community's current conception of how nurse staffing levels impact patient care.</p>","PeriodicalId":79946,"journal":{"name":"Healthcare benchmarks","volume":"6 12","pages":"137-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Healthcare benchmarks","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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California became the first state to require all patient care units in hospitals to meet fixed minimum nurse-to-patient ratios. In a hospital environment where patients are sicker, and care is more complex, according to American Nurses Association (ANA) president Beverly L. Malone, "Cutting the numbers of RNs and substituting unlicensed aides for registered nurses are exactly the wrong moves." ANA's "Principles of Nurse Staffing" call for staffing decisions to be made on the basis of three sets of principles: those related to patient care, staff-related issues, and institution/organization concerns. The California legislation currently contains no specific numerical requirements. ANA's 10 Nursing-Sensitive Quality Indicators for Acute Care Settings is comprised of a series of measures that represent the nursing community's current conception of how nurse staffing levels impact patient care.
加州成为第一个要求医院的所有病人护理部门达到固定的最低护士与病人比例的州。美国护士协会(ANA)主席贝弗利·l·马龙(Beverly L. Malone)表示，在病人病情更重、护理更复杂的医院环境中，“削减注册护士的数量，用无证助理代替注册护士，完全是错误的做法。”全日空的“护士人员配置原则”要求在三套原则的基础上做出人员配置决定:与病人护理有关的原则，与员工有关的问题，以及机构/组织的问题。加州立法目前没有具体的数字要求。ANA的急性护理设置的10个护理敏感质量指标由一系列措施组成，这些措施代表了护理界目前关于护士人员配备水平如何影响患者护理的概念。
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