My Thoughts
Advocating for mandated nurse-to-patient ratios is an easy choice because it saves lives. The nursing profession is founded on caring for others, providing and promoting the health, safety, and well-being of those in need and the best way to do that is with safe nurse-to-patient staffing. This mandate is a win-win for patients, staff, and facility. Patients get best care, staff has job satisfaction, and facility gets decrease costs from benefits that better health care and staff satisfaction will produce.

References
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Nurse-to-Patient Ratios
Renee Candace Privette
Nur531 Week 3
Opinion Assignment
University of Phoenix
Dr. Annette

Mandate Nurse-to-Patient Ratios

To Mandate or Not:
Should We?

History
The debate on staffing ratios began in California, there a merger of nursing unions got together to urge