Safety in numbers
Subtitle: nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care
By: Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton.
Contributors: Buchanan, John, 1959-; Bretherton, Tanya.
Series: The culture and politics of health care work
Publisher: ILR Press/Cornell University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780801446832
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States; title: Not out of thin air; title: The hospital industry response; title: Ratios redux; title: Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot; title: How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work; title: Winning ratios in Victoria; title: Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment; title: What we know about nurse staffing; title: Arguments against and alternatives to ratios.