There's a reason why nursing is such a promising field to enter: You can never have too many of them.
A new study reaffirms that principle, finding that hospitals with lower nurse-to-patient ratios have significantly lower mortality rates than those where nurses are spread out over more patients.
The research, which was published in the British Medical Journal, also found that a lower ratio of doctors to patients was associated with a lower chance of patient death. The study examined 137 acute care "trusts," which are organizations that oversee hospitals in the U.K.
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