Abstracts by keywords: nursing standards
Minimum nursing staff limits, the self-image of the statutory health insurance and the role of health care research
Germany has a care problem. What has long remained in the silence of the daily struggle of nurses to somehow provide adequate care for their patients is now reaching the public and is being taken up prominently in the political process. For example, the EU-funded RN4CAST study, which was carried out from 2009 to 2011, provided objective evidence of the “nursing crisis”1: while in the USA a nurse cared for an average of 5.3 patients in a hospital and in Norway for 3.4 to While 8.2 patients were responsible, the care ratio in Germany was between 7.5 and 19.2. This means that the best facilities in Germany were only slightly better than the worst in Norway. Germany is therefore at the bottom of all countries considered.