Abstract
The lives of patients are put at risk when nurses have more than eight patients in their care at one time, a leading nurse academic said last week. Peter Griffiths, the University of Southampton’s chair of health services research, said he had resisted calls for minimum staffing levels in the past, but evidence from recent studies showed that expecting one person to care for more than eight patients was dangerous. Speaking at the RCN 2013 international nursing research conference in Belfast last week, he said such staff-to-patient ratios should act as a ‘fire alarm’ to staff and managers.
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