Nurse workloads critical factor in patient survival rates

The ABC News reports that ‘Professor Linda Aiken from the University of Pennsylvania said her research showed every patient added to a nurse’s workload was associated with a 7 per cent increase in hospital deaths after common surgery. She told a Queensland Nurses Union symposium in Brisbane today that the research also showed the greater the number of bachelor-educated nurses, the lower the number of deaths’.

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