NURS 4105 Topic 2 Assignment 3 (Financial Impacts of Nurse Staffing Ratios) A Grade Assignment

Walden University Nursing 4105 Advocacy Through Healthcare Policy Assignment 3 Financial Impacts of Nurse Staffing Ratios: As nurses, we understand that we are required to have many different job responsibilities. Nurses are required to maintain patient care, administer medications, and, in certain circumstances, save lives. In addition to the registered nurses' standard scope of practice, it is required to take on higher than average patient to nurse ratios that make care unsafe and have low quality. As a result of registered nurses taking a stand, the Registered Nurse Staffing Act has been proposed. The American Journal of Nursing (2015) describes that if the Registered Nurse Staffing Act were approved, it would require hospitals that receive payments from Medicare to establish ways in which they would provide adequate ratios for registered nurses......................