title: Nurse staffing and patient, nurse, and financial outcomes.
abstract: Because there's no scientific evidence to support specific nurse-patient ratios, and in order to assess the impact of hospital nurse staffing levels on given patient, nurse, and financial outcomes, the author conducted a literature review. The evidence shows that adequate staffing and balanced workloads are central to achieving good outcomes, and the author offers recommendations for ensuring appropriate nurse staffing and for further research.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Professions, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA. lunruh@mail.ucf.edu
authors.forename: Lynn
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Unruh
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000191:economics; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States; D016526:Workload