it also encourages hospitals to kick patients out. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
Michael Perelman writes: > The nurses do not exist in those numbers. He is > grandstanding -- unless > we can kidnap nurses from elsewhere. > > so what does pen-l think of the following? >>>California hospitals will need 5,000 more workers to meet proposed minimum nurse-staffing levels released Tuesday by California Gov. Gray Davis. Davis' plan requires a minimum of one nurse for every five patients in medical wards -- and fewer patients per nurse in labor and delivery, emergency rooms and critical-care units. (The New York Times, page A15).<<<
