Nurse-patient ratios and patient satisfaction

Follow these instructions to access 20 relevant articles in PubMed.
a. Go to the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library homepage at http://health.library.emory.edu
b. Click on PubMed.
c. Then copy and paste this link into your browser address bar: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/myncbi/1HMKnKhQm_d5i/collections/54009478/public/
d. The references will appear in PubMed. Click on a reference, and you will see a Find it at Emory to the right of it which will provide availability for full text. If you are an Emory Healthcare employee who is not able to access full text, you may submit citation(s) to Ask a Librarian. Library staff will get article(s) for you and email them to you.

A few of the references are included in the collection because of their inclusion in a table listing articles about patient satisfaction in the following systematic review.

​Lang, T. A., Hodge, M., Olson, V., Romano, P. S., & Kravitz, R. L. (2004). Nurse-patient ratios: a systematic review on the effects of nurse staffing on patient, nurse employee, and hospital outcomes. Journal of Nursing Administration, 34(7-8), 326-337.

This entry was posted in Patient Care Team, Patient Satisfaction and tagged , by Lisa. Bookmark the permalink.
Unknown's avatar

About Lisa

I have been a Clinical Informationist (aka Medical Librarian) for Emory University since September 2013. Prior to that, I was a Medical Librarian for Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) from March 2007 to August 2013 and served its DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine (LMU-DCOM), Caylor School of Nursing, and allied health programs. From January 2002 - March 2007, I served the Medical Assisting (MA), Occupational Therapy Assistant, Physical Therapy Assistant, Radiologic Technologist, and Nursing programs at South College in Knoxville, Tennessee. I graduated from The University of Tennessee School of Information Sciences with a Master of Science degree in December 2000. Received a Educational Specialist (EdS) degree in Educational Administration and Supervision with a higher education focus in August 2010 from LMU.

Leave a comment