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Bianca Robinson
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01114.x/full
In this article a study was done in 2006 over nurse staffing in hospitals from California,
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. They explored how the nurse to patient ratio affected the
amount of patient deaths. This was due to the amount of work each nurse had to
undertake. Therefore, the nurses in California were assigned two less patients this led to
better care of the patients and the mortality rate was lowered. The issue of nurse staffing
was resolved by addressing less patients to one nurse. I can use this article because it
Kolenc, V. (2011, August 18). Demonstration draws attention to staffing problems at hospital.
attention-to-staffing-problems-at-hospital/
In this article, nurses from El Paso are mad about the fact that hospitals havent made an
effort to fix the issue on the low nurse staffing. Therefore, nurses stood outside Las
Palmas hospital to bring attention to this issue that has been ignored for a while. These
nurses tried to attract the attention from the hospital administrators to fix this issue. I will
use this article because it will help me explain the anger that these nurses are feeling and
how they are tired being ignored. I will also use this article to explain whom the targeted
Mark, B., & Harless, D. (2007). Nurse Staffing, Mortality, and Length of Stay in For- Profit and
Not-for-Profit Hospitals. Inquiry, 44(2), 167-186. Retrieved from the JSTOR database.
In this article it is stated that around the 1990s in order for hospitals to make more
money they demanded for less nurses. Low nurse staffing not only causes patients to die,
but also for the patients to stay longer at hospitals. In conclusion they realized the less
nurses there is the quality of care also drops. I will use this article to explain why some
hospitals like El Paso hospitals are dealing with the issue of nurse staffing. The reason
behind this is because some hospitals do not want to waste money on paying for more
nurses.
In this Personal Interview I spoke to Jessica Acosta. She was a nurse at Providence that
experienced the workload of too many patients assigned to one nurse. Jessica also stated
that it was very hard for her to keep up with so many patients, and how burnt out she felt.
She went on to explain how exhausting it was for her and how unfair it was for the
patients because they did not receive the care they deserved, but it was only because
nurses were over worked. She believed that if they lowered the amount of patients to one
nurse then the outcomes of both patients and nurses would be so much better. This
interview will be used to give an inside look at what most nurses in El Paso are feeling,
Nurses United, N. (2014, September 23). Celebrate 15 Years of Californias Nurse to Patient
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/blog/entry/celebrate-15-years-of-californias-nurse-
to-patient-ratios/
In this video blog, it is seen how the nurses in California fought to make a change with
the nurse to patient ratio. In 1999, California passed a patient ratio law, which meant that
it was against the law to give too many patients to one nurse. California has been the only
state in the United States of America to have a patient ratios law. This law had a good
outcome with patients because they received better care from nurses, and also nurses had
a better working experience. This video blog will be used to show how the state of Texas
should pass a law like Californias to improve the issue of nurse staffing in El Paso. This
Rothberg, M., Abraham, I., Lindenauer, P., & Rose, D. (2005). Improving Nurse-to-Patient
The research done in this article was to examine the cost due to nurse staffing. When the
amount of patients to one nurse was decreased the amount of deaths also decreased, but
that was more expensive for hospitals because they had to pay more nurses for their
work. When the amount of patients to one nurse was increased more deaths occurred, but
hospitals did save more money. This article is useful to the issue of nurse staffing because
it provides evidence as to why hospitals dont just hire more nurses to prevent this issue.
Valdez, D. W. (2011, December 22). Group says El Pasos nurse-patient ratios inadequate.
patient-ratio/
In this website it is told that El Paso nurses are going against the hospitals such as Del
Sol and Las Palmas due to the low staffing. They believe that these hospitals are putting
their patients at risk. They only hope that El Paso will make a difference with nurse
staffing just like the state of California did. I will be using this article to support my issue
of the low nurse staffing in El Paso hospitals because it provides how nurses need help
Welton, J. (2010). Response to Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care With Direct Measurement of
www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/25750581
This article is a response to an article by Harless and Mark, which stated that the cause to
patient mortality is due to the cause of low nurse staffing, but in this article by Welton, it
gives a different view on the nurse staffing issue. Is it really the issue on low nurse to
patient ratio that is causing the deaths of patients? Or is the issue of nurse staffing being
used to as an excuse for the amount of deaths of patients? This article is important to the
issue of nurse staffing because it give a different view on this issue. Therefore, Ill use