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Article: Nurses' patient-care outlook grim. (survey shows pessimism about staffing, quality of care)
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- Modern Healthcare
- Article date:
- June 17, 1996
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Hospital restructuring and changes in the nursing workload are harming patients, U.S. nurses report in a survey to be released this week.
By a wide margin, nurses think they have less time to teach and comfort patients and to provide basic nursing care. They also report increases in the numbers of patients assigned per nurse and in adverse patient-care events.
"The survey results are painting a bleak picture of what's going on in hospitals today," said Martin DiCarlantonio, editor of the American Journal of Nursing, where a news story about the survey will be published in July. Results are being released this week in Washington in conjunction with the ...