Strategies for Increasing Nurse Staffing
Together with his colleagues, lead author Jack Needleman, Ph.D., of the School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles, analyzed data from 799 acute care general hospitals in 11 states. The study simulated the effect of three options to increase Nurse Staffing: 1) raising the proportion of RNs relative to LPNs, without changing the total number of hours of care, to the same level as in the top 25 percent of hospitals; 2) increasing the number of licensed nursing hours per day, without changing the proportion of RNs and LPNs, to the same level in the top 25 percent of hospitals; and 3) raising proportions of RNs and the level of licensed nursing hours per day to that of the top 25 percent of hospitals.
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