Safety in numbers nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care

Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care / Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton.

Author/creator	Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-
Other author/creator	Buchanan, John, 1959-
Other author/creator	Bretherton, Tanya.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press,
Description	ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Nursing services--Standards --California. Nursing services--Standards --Australia --Victoria. Nursing services--California --Personnel management --Statistical methods. Nursing services--Australia --Victoria --Personnel management --Statistical methods. Hospitals--California --Administration --Statistical methods. Hospitals--Australia --Victoria --Administration --Statistical methods. Ratio analysis.

Series	The culture and politics of health care work
Contents	Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States -- Not out of thin air -- The hospital industry response -- Ratios redux -- Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot -- How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work -- Winning ratios in Victoria -- Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment -- What we know about nurse staffing -- Arguments against and alternatives to ratios.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2007045442
ISBN	9780801446832 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	080144683X (cloth : alk. paper)

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