Market Watch: California's minimum-nurse-staffing legislation and nurses' wages

Health Affairs

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Mark, Barbara ^a   Harless, David W ^b   Spetz, Joanne ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMPLOYMENT; LAW; NURSING SHORTAGE; NURSING STAFF; REGISTERED NURSE; SALARY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA; WAGE GROWTH; WORK SCHEDULE; HUMAN; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT;

CALIFORNIA; HUMANS; LEGISLATION, MEDICAL; NURSING STAFF; SALARIES AND FRINGE BENEFITS;

EID: 66149171370     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 15445208     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.28.2.w326     Document Type: Article

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2. and J. Spetz et al., "Minimum Nurse Staffing Ratios in California Acute Care Hospitals" (San Francisco: University of California, San Francisco, Center for the Health Professions, 2000). Joanne Spetz and colleagues assumed that the staffing regulation would be met by hiring RNs, while Richard Kravitz and colleagues assumed that the regulation would be met while keeping the same ratio of RNs to LVNs.
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