Document Type
White Paper
Publisher
University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education
Publication Date
2012
Publisher location
Orono, Maine
Abstract/ Summary
A growing body of research is now documenting how serious problems in the work environments of nursing care in American hospitals are posing a threat to patient safety, as well as contributing to shortages of nurses working in hospital settings and in greater job stress and burnout among nurses. A major factor in this picture, according to a major report by the National Institute of Medicine, is the issue of chronic understaffing among direct care nurses.
Repository Citation
Bureau of Labor Education. University of Maine, "Working Conditions and Patient Safety: Safe Staffing in Maine's Hospitals" (2012). Bureau of Labor Education. 1.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/labor_education/1
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