Legislating for nurse/patient ratios 'clumsy and costly' - experts.
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They were responding to the unions’ attempt to relieve pressure cooker working conditions for a thin and increasingly ageing nursing population. Veteran trade union, Solidarity, and the Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa (Denosa) are punting flexible but legally enforceable nurse/patient ratios to reduce ‘burnout’ resignations, to reverse nurse emigration trends and to boost training outputs.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- South African medical journal = Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir geneeskunde
دوره 99 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009