Prior research and the popular press have anecdotally reported inadequate nursing home staffing levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Maintaining adequate staffing levels is critical to ensuring ...

Mandating nurse staffing ratios is 'short-sighted and counterproductive,' AONL contends. Though a handful of state legislatures are considering mandating nurse-to-patient staffing ratios, government ...

Close to a third of nurses nationwide say they are likely to leave the profession for another career due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a new survey from AMN Healthcare shows. This level is up at least ...

A recent study published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality found that improvement is needed when it comes to the participation levels of newly-registered nurses in hospital quality improvement ...

Low staffing levels and “missed nursing care” may be directly associated with higher risk of patient falls, according to research published in the Journal of Nursing Care Quality. For their study, ...

Dozens of nurses packed into a City Council hearing Wednesday to sound the alarm over dangerously low staffing levels — shortages they’ve decried before, during and after the height of the COVID-19 ...

The state House on Wednesday passed a bill that would set minimum nursing staffing levels at Pennsylvania hospitals. The bill passed 119-84 over strong objections from hospitals and many Republicans.

For nearly 25 years, California has been the only state to mandate minimum staffing levels for hospital nurses. But more than a dozen states have regulations that give nurses a stronger role in ...