Cutting nurses’ patient loads boosts care

Monday, July 26th, 2004 at 4:09 pm

All the RN's over at SPH, this post is for you! :smile:

Cutting nurses' patient loads boosts care, costs Calif. hospitals struggle to meet new staff ratios

By Julie Appleby
USA TODAY

SAN FRANCISCO — Nurse Yorsing Chang remembers well the days when she would be responsible for eight or nine patients per shift, was constantly on the move and had little time for any extras. On a recent afternoon, Chang was assigned four patients at Kaiser Permanente's hospital here.

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