Introduction
Patient health outcome is influenced by different factors. One of these factors is the nursing staff-patient ratio. Nurse staffing and how it affects the patient and nurse outcomes is of major concern to the hospital administrators and policy makers. This can be linked to the findings of several researches done relating to the outcomes of nurse-patient ratios. Since delivery of high-quality patient care is a key motivating factor for managers, understanding this myriad of issues and providing key solutions will be a beneficial step towards restructuring the nurse-patient relationship within the health care system. The review paper by (Patternson, 2011) pointed ...
