A new study finds that when you're treated can make a difference.
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Comment: It is amazing to me that people outside of hospitals are just now figuring this out - nurses who work in hospitals have known this for years.
Weekends and evening/night shifts are always less staffed; there are more patient falls, more medication errors, more complications, more adverse incidents of every kind, because there are less nurses. Ironically, the only type of hospital admissions that occur on weekends and evening/night shifts are emergency admissions - planned admissions only occur during the day, when there is enough staff. (Translation: enough surgeons scheduling surgery).
As already stated by another RN in this post, I have stayed overnight with both of my parents when they had major surgery, and the nursing staff of those units were grateful to have me there - one less patient they had to focus on.
The night my father had his surgery, there were 2 nurses on duty for 30 patients, and there were 6 emergency surgical admissions, in addition to the regularly scheduled surgical patients from that day. This was a small, private for-profit hospital in NY in an affluent area, 20 miles from Manhattan. That hospital had jobs posted for night shift charge nurses, starting pay $70,000/year, in 2001, and they still couldn't hire enough night shift nurses. You can only imagine how bad the staffing is in rural, inner-city and municpal-run not-for-profit hospitals.
The article mentions interns working long hours, not enough attending physicians available weekends and evening/night shifts, but it is the poor nurse-to-patient ration that is the problem, not the availability (or lack of availability) of interns and residents.
The American Nurses Association, as well as dozens of nursing schools, have done study after study that show improved patient outcomes are directly related to the the number of registered nurses available. Length of stay, the number of hospital acquired infections, surgical complications, patient falls, and amazingly, nursing staff turnover all decrease when there are enough nurses at the bedside.
Hospitals are set up for the care and comfort of physicians, specifically, surgeons. What may be best for the nurse, and certainly, what is best for the patient, is always secondary.
Comment: Usually, evenings and weekends are the times when there are less nurses staffed. There is a ubiquitous belief that the patients sleep at night in the hospital, so the same number of nurses is not needed then Also,. apparently the thought is that on weekends, patients go home, so again, staff is cut. Nurses everywhere are doing all they can to make every patient safe, but a nurse can only be in one place at a time.
Comment: I am also an RN. I second your statements.
The staffing and patient safety issues need to fall squarely on the shoulders of the administration. Until hospital administrators and the corporate board of directors are held accountable or are in danger of prison sentences, this unsafe atmosphere will continue. They ultimately decide the staffing ratios that exist.
I personally sit at the bedside of family or friends when they are hospitalized because of this staffing nightmare.
Comment: Yes, weekends are the worst of the worst to get sick and need hospital attention. Each week trollers from local nursing faciles run around the hospital, looking for victims to transfer to their facilitiy The patient really is not ready for discharge, the staff at the home are not ready to receive the patients, and after one or two days become very ill and need to be transferred by to the hospital. So on the weekends when the population is less, so is the staff, saving THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. These transfers are stressful to the patients, and do nothing by give the ambulance transfer people $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
It is certainly better, if you are sick to stay out of these germ infested snakepits.
LourraineStamets In Loving memory of Chris Demetri April 18,1951- March 15,2006
lourrainestamets@yahoo.com
Comment: I obviously do not think you have a good quality hospital experiance. You can not judge what you do not know! yes money is big in the medical feild, but NO hospitals are not germ infested snakepits! every minute of everyday a life is saved an a hospital, but not every life can be saved some cases are worse than others. not saying that one life is more valuable tan another, but I am saying that you can not judge every hospital on one bad stay!
Comment: I obviously do not think you have a good quality hospital experiance. You can not judge what you do not know! yes money is big in the medical feild, but NO hospitals are not germ infested snakepits! every minute of everyday a life is saved an a hospital, but not every life can be saved some cases are worse than others. not saying that one life is more valuable tan another, but I am saying that you can not judge every hospital on one bad stay!
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Did anyone who has made a comment read or understand this article?
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Comment: Well duh, they can't contact your insurance company after 5 and on weekends...and all the superstar doctors work the day shift. The interns and residents pull the night and weekend duty.
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