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    Running head: A POLICY WHITE PAPER ON NURSE TO PATIENT 1 | dag Qe Ww A Policy White Paper on Nurse to Patient Ratiog Spencer May Dixie State University APOLICY WHITE PAPER ON NURSE TO PATIENT 2 A Policy White Paper on Nurse to Patient Ratio S In the nursing world itis important that a nurse does not attempt to bites more than they can chew. This is why it is important that there is to some extent a nurse to patient ratio policy in place to help protect nurses in their practice. By making this policy, jt assures nurses will have a maximum limit to the number of patients they can safely take care of so they can provide better quality and safer care to patients ghd this will also prevent nurse burn out effect. History have Staffing ratios Nag really become a topic of interest in the last few decades. As patients stay fewer days in the hospital and the patients acuities have gradually increased the demand for nurses has also gone up. Until the early 192{* the majority of hospital care was given by unpaid 23) student nurses with a nursing superintendent closely watching their every move. After the First World War many new technological advanct}j came out which gave birth to the modern hospital. Ke & This caused patient care which originally was mostly done in the home to move to hospitals. ‘After The Second World War and even more advances in medicine which include ventilators and ~/ cardiae monitoring patients,led to the need for specialized training and the formation of units Tike

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