More nurses mean fewer heart attack deaths
Nurse Leader Insider, December 17, 2015
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It turns out nurses are good for the heart. Provided they aren't overworked and underappreciated.
A study published in The Journal of Medical Care found that 85% of patients who suffer an in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) die before being discharged. This is despite the fact that 80% of IHCA cases are witnessed and 88% of patients were on cardiac monitoring equipment when the attack happened.
Nurses are typically the first to witness and respond to IHCA cases, making them crucial in a patient's survival. It was found that each additional patient per nurse decreased a patient's chances of surviving an IHCA by 5% and that a poor work environment dropped a patient's chances of survival by 16%.
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