Quality of Patient Care: Link to Nurse Staffing

             "Quality of Patient Care: Link to Nurse Staffing"
             There have been many studies done on nursing. But it was done slowly as issues arose. From 1955-65 nursing changed from functional nursing to team nursing. 1975-85 it changed from team nursing to Primary nursing/total patient care. In 1990s changed focus to cost and efficiency and since 2000 we have a shortage crisis.
             There was lot of research done with a lot of inconsistent results about RN hours and patient satisfaction, mortality, morbidity and the function of nurses. But despite the avalanche of research it was difficult to change things because the research was not done well. In 1999 the question was again brought up, what is the effect of nurse staffing and the shortage of RNs on patients? Between 1999 to 2006 jobs will grow 23%. How much nursing care is available for patients? Since the 1980s the hours had changed form 6 hours to 8 hours a day for nurses in hospitals. But patients are in hospitals less so therefore less nursing care given and a study found that hospitals were hiring less clinicians over other hospital employees (Aiken & Anderson et al).
             There were some problems in the type of study done to accurately tell the problem of nurse staffing and patient care. The Hospital Level Study had an advantage because there is a large data set to do research with but it was a disadvantage in some cases because it combined the patients of entire institution. The Unit Level studies were much better in answering how many nurses you need, but it was at a disadvantage because they were small studies.
             Another problem with the research was how do you measure nurse staffing, (what is it? Metric? What is the best?), and how do you measure the quality of patient care? Some ways were to study the mortality rates, complication, and adverse occurrences. Kovner (1998, 2002) study found that the more RN hou
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