• Evidence-based nursing · Apr 2015

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    Increasing nurse staffing levels and a higher proportion with bachelor's degrees could decrease patient mortality risk.

    • Milisa Manojlovich.
    • University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
    • Evid Based Nurs. 2015 Apr 1;18(2):62.

    AbstractImplications for practice and research: Hospital efforts to save costs by reducing nursing staff may contribute to 30-day in-hospital mortality, while more nurses prepared at the baccalaureate level may help prevent adverse outcomes. Policymakers need nurse staffing level recommendations based on scientific, business, social and political evidence in order to act.

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