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It has a one-to-one nurse-patient ratio in critical care and one-to-four in the rest.
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Its chief goal is to carve into law a patient-to-nurse ratio of 5-to-1 or less, a feat it achieved in California over the objections of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Whiteman married a nurse while he was a patient at high-security Rampton Hospital in Nottinghamshire in 2008.
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While in non-urgent cases the system is slick and convenient, it does cut out the face-to-face interaction between patient and nurse.
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Despite this, the plaintiffs argued, a nurse anesthetist at Desert Shadow injected a Hep C-infected patient with Propofol, then returned the syringe to the bottle, infecting the contents, before using another syringe to inject Chanin.
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But it also offers top-class medical care and one of the highest nurse to patient ratios in the country.
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Home health care is primarily for patients who need frequent care that requires the attention of a physical, occupational, or speech therapist, or a nurse on a part-time basis, but does not require the patient to be hospitalized.
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Calling and e-mailing their doctor or nurse can save some time, but result in patient data scattered all over the place.
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Sheila Ghelani, the star of Nurse Knows Best - which involves the audience member being put to bed and treated as a patient, says she can get a "beautiful connection" with her audience of one.
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