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[NurseChat]

I saw an interesting article at Newsday.com, here.

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Increasing a registered nurse's workload by only one patient raises by 7 percent the likelihood of a hospital patient dying, a team of researchers has found in a study released today.

The suggested average ratio of 5 patients per nurse seems like a step in the right direction.

[Rick]

I've seen critical patients being cared by RN's with only a few months of experience. With no supervision and this while the oklahoma state board of nursing taking away licenses of experienced RN's. By senseless reasons, justified soley by the authority for the state board of nursings opinion alone. No docuemented evidence. Just the board members opinion of the nurse being inferior. There was a man in the 1930's who had a whole country believing a certain race of people were inferior. Before he was stopped, 1.6 million innocent lives were lost. At present there is no overseeing of the oklahoma state board of nursing senseless actions. There needs to be and there needs to be a national awareness of this.

[EDRNINCT]

Unless we decide to stand up and be counted . . .all of us as individuals. . .I fear that the healthcare system will get less and less safe. . . we're the ones who know and experience it. If we continue to scramble for overtime instead of using our time to advocate for better systems we can be our own worst (and our patients worst) enemy