With only 20% of nurses in the US who feel staffing levels are safe, patient to nurse ratios is a big topic within healthcare. Not everyone can agree on legislations, but numbers are in: 

In hospitals a 1:8 nurse-to-patient ratios experience five additional deaths per 1,000 patients compared to a 1:4 nurse-to-patient ratio 

Odds of patient death increases by 7% for each additional patient a nurse takes on at one time

Today we discuss the good and bad of ratios and impacts it may or may not have on hospitals. 

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