Inadequate Nurse Staffing and Its Impact

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Since 2002, we’ve had lots of robust research documenting the impact of inadequate staffing on patient complications and even death. But only California has managed to pass a law that mandates minimum nurse staffing levels. Opposition to such mandates always includes hospital administrators, but it has sometimes included members of the nursing community itself. Recently, Dr. Andrea Brassard wrote a blog about some shifts that may be happening as a federal bill to address staffing has been introduced into Congress.  Diana Mason, PhD, RN, FAAN, talked about this with Andrea Brassard, PhD, RN, FAAN, a nurse practitioner and Associate Professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Nursing. Dr. Brassard has served as a Senior Policy Advisor in the Public Policy Institute at AARP where she worked on the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action initiative to foster implementation of the recommendations in a National Academy of Medicine report on nursing. She also served as Director of Health Policy at the American Nurses Association.  This interview first aired on HealthCetera in the Catskills on WIOX Radio on May 31, 2023.

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