
Compassion for patients and fellow workers
Be honest to nurses about high patient loads of high acuity patients
Keep nurse to patient ratio at 5 to 1 at most. Lower ratio with high acquire patients.
Be less profit focused. Less cost conscious about hiring adequate nursing staff and qualified nurse aids. Company culture is to dump too many high acuity patients on nurses.
Increase nursing staff to a ration of no more than 5 patients to 1 nurse... if the patients are average acuity. The ratio should be lower if acuity is higher.