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To the Editor: The findings reported by Needleman and colleagues (May 30 issue)¹ provide further evidence of what hospital nurses have feared for quite some time: there are too few registered-nurse (R.N.) staff members, and there is too little support to provide safe and beneficent care for patients. Although there is no simple fix, change may come too late and at too high a price. As hospitals balance the costs of technological means of delivering care with the costs of hiring more nurses, the cost–benefit calculation is not in nurses' favor. Nurses are compassionate, altruistic providers, yet they have not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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