Nurse-to-patient ratios: What do we know?

Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 14-16

  Greenberg, Patricia B ^a  

^a Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECONOMICS; LEGAL ASPECT; NURSING STAFF; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL;

EID: 33244463513     PISSN: 15271544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527154405283505     Document Type: Review

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