Hospital patients are subject to unsafe nursing care every day due to nurses caring for too many patients. Hospital financial woes have cut into nursing hours of care. Subservient nurses are an easy target. So your nurse on a typical medical/surgical unit may be caring 7-10 patients. As years go by, nurses have been told to take on more patients than its safe to do. Patients are sicker with only the most sick being admitted based on Medicare and insurance regulations. Nurses are trained they may not turn down an assignment no matter how unsafe the situation. It would be considered job abandoment. Safe nurse to patient ratios are critical for quality, safe patient care. Support safe nurse to patient ratios. Your life may depend on it.
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