Critique of a Nursing Article

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The paper approaches the issue from a variety of research tools: surveys, databases and hospital records. The study concluded that there is a higher rate of adverse events to patients when staffing is just one nurse lower than recommended and this lowers when the wards are overstaffed. The paper contends the article is well written, well researched, and delivers convincing evidence that the issue should be looked into in greater detail.

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"In 2003, authors Sung-Hyun Cho, Shake Ketefian, Violet H. Barkauskas and Dean G. Smith published an article entitled "The Effects of Nurse Staffing on Adverse Events, Morbidity, Mortality and Medical Costs." The article was published as the result of a project made possible through a research grant given by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The purpose of the project was to determine the effects of the level of nurse staffing, if any, on patient mortality, morbidity, medical costs and adverse events in general. The study sampled data from over 200 hospitals and data on more than 120,000 patients cross-referenced with 20 diagnosis-related groups. The authors then compared the level of nursing against the incidence levels of a variety of adverse events such as falls and injuries, pressure ulcers, adverse drug events, pneumonia, urinary tract infection, wound infection and sepsis."

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