We hear a lot about the critical U.S. nursing shortages, but nobody addresses the real costs associated with locating and retaining nurses at your facility. We are offering CEO’s and CFO’s of hospitals and other medical facilities a free, no obligation third-party review of your true nurse acquisition costs. We provide an unbiased confidential in depth review of the costs you have been incurring along with a solution to the problem.
Currently, there are 120,000 nursing positions available in the U.S. With baby boomers aging along with the current nurse work force, the shortage will increase to 440,000 by 2008.
“According to the latest projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in the February 2004 Monthly Labor Review, more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2012. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor has identified Registered Nursing as the top occupation in terms of job growth through the year 2012”
“Emergency rooms are shutting down, surgeries are delayed and, most disturbing of all, patients are sometimes not getting the critical care they desperately need”
60 Minutes January 17, 2003
A survey reported in the December 12, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that 53% of physicians and 65% of the public cited the shortage of nurses as a leading cause of medical errors. Overall, 42% of the public and more than a third of U.S. doctors reported that they or their family members have experienced medical errors in the course of receiving medical care. The survey was conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
According to a study published in the October 23/30, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, more nurses at the bedside could save thousands of patient lives each year. Nurse researchers at the University of Pennsylvania determined that patients who have common surgeries in hospitals with high nurse-to-patient ratios have an up to 31% increased chance of dying. Funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research, the study found that every additional patient in an average hospital nurse’s workload increased the risk of death in surgical patients by 7%. Having too few nurses may actually cost more money given the high costs of replacing burnt-out nurses and caring for patients with poor outcomes.
More than a dozen states are considering legislation that would address mandatory overtime practices found in many hospitals. Congressman Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, a state hit especially hard by the shortage, has just introduced national legislation. CNN May 8, 2001
Nationally, nurse to patient ratios are being scrutinized in order to provide better patient care and decrease hospital liability.
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We hear a lot about the critical U.S. nursing shortages, but nobody addresses the real costs associated with locating and retaining nurses at your facility. We are offering CEO’s and CFO’s of hospitals and other medical facilities a free, no obligation third-party review of your true nurse acquisition costs. We provide an unbiased confidential in depth review of the costs you have been incurring along with a solution to the problem.
Currently, there are 120,000 nursing positions available in the U.S. With baby boomers aging along with the current nurse work force, the shortage will increase to 440,000 by 2008.
“According to the latest projections from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published in the February 2004 Monthly Labor Review, more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2012. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Labor has identified Registered Nursing as the top occupation in terms of job growth through the year 2012”
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecopro.toc.htm
“Emergency rooms are shutting down, surgeries are delayed and, most disturbing of all, patients are sometimes not getting the critical care they desperately need”
60 Minutes January 17, 2003
A survey reported in the December 12, 2002 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine found that 53% of physicians and 65% of the public cited the shortage of nurses as a leading cause of medical errors. Overall, 42% of the public and more than a third of U.S. doctors reported that they or their family members have experienced medical errors in the course of receiving medical care. The survey was conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
http://www.kff.org/content/2002/20021211a
According to a study published in the October 23/30, 2002 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, more nurses at the bedside could save thousands of patient lives each year. Nurse researchers at the University of Pennsylvania determined that patients who have common surgeries in hospitals with high nurse-to-patient ratios have an up to 31% increased chance of dying. Funded by the National Institute for Nursing Research, the study found that every additional patient in an average hospital nurse’s workload increased the risk of death in surgical patients by 7%. Having too few nurses may actually cost more money given the high costs of replacing burnt-out nurses and caring for patients with poor outcomes.
http://www.nursing.upenn.edu/news/detail.asp?t=2&id=23
More than a dozen states are considering legislation that would address mandatory overtime practices found in many hospitals. Congressman Tom Lantos, a Democrat from California, a state hit especially hard by the shortage, has just introduced national legislation. CNN May 8, 2001
Nationally, nurse to patient ratios are being scrutinized in order to provide better patient care and decrease hospital liability.