Which ANA Principles for Nurse Staffing standards are applied to patient care?
a. Staffing levels that must be sufficient for providing quality patient care
b. Mandated staffing ratios
c. Recommended a new method for determining staffing needs
d. Staffing based on patient census
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A The principles identified by the ANA addressing patient care and staffing rec-ommend that staffing be maintained to provide quality patient care for the indi-vidual patient as well as the unit population as a whole and not be based on pre-viously used nursing hours per patient day.
B This is not a recommendation.
C The ANA recommended that the old method be retired or at least questioned for its efficacy.
D The recommendation was that staffing be based on patient needs.
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