A comparative analysis of nurses' reported number of patients and perceived appropriate number of patients in integrated nursing care services
Hyunjeong Kwon,
Jinhyun Kim
Abstract:This study aimed to compare the number of assigned and appropriate patients per nurse in integrated nursing care service wards and analyze factors associated with the gap. For this cross‐sectional secondary analysis, data were collected from surveys of 2312 nurses and institutional data from their affiliated 106 hospitals in Korea. We used the Wilcoxon signed‐rank test and t‐test to compare the number of patients assigned to nurses with the number they considered appropriate. We used ratio analysis for measuri… Show more
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