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Gordon, Suzanne, 1945-

Title Safety in numbers : nurse-to-patient ratios and the future of health care / Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton.

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Ithaca : ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 2008.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	362.1730683 G658s 2008	---	Available

Description	ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	The culture and politics of health care work
	Culture and politics of health care work.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Hospital restructuring and the erosion of nursing care in California and the United States -- Not out of thin air -- The hospital industry response -- Ratios redux -- Working life for nurses in the late 1990s in Australia : a snapshot -- How did it come to this? : the factors driving the intensification of nursing work -- Winning ratios in Victoria -- Evaluating the impact of ratios : an imperfect experiment -- What we know about nurse staffing -- Arguments against and alternatives to ratios.
Subject	Nursing services -- Standards -- California.
	Nursing services -- Standards -- Australia -- Victoria.
	Nursing services -- California -- Personnel management -- Statistical methods.
	Nursing services -- Australia -- Victoria -- Personnel management -- Statistical methods.
	Hospitals -- California -- Administration -- Statistical methods.
	Hospitals -- Australia -- Victoria -- Administration -- Statistical methods.
	Ratio analysis.
	Nursing Staff, Hospital -- supply & distribution -- Australia.
	Nursing Staff, Hospital -- supply & distribution -- California.
	Nursing Services -- manpower -- Australia.
	Nursing Services -- manpower -- California.
	Personnel Staffing and Scheduling -- Australia.
	Personnel Staffing and Scheduling -- California.
	Safety Management -- Australia.
	Safety Management -- California.
Added Author	Buchanan, John, 1959-
	Bretherton, Tanya.
ISBN	9780801446832 (cloth : alk. paper)
	080144683X (cloth : alk. paper)
Standard No.	NZ1 11668736
	NLM 101474056
	AU@ 000042368564
	NLGGC 310072050