How a social media post started a safe staffing revolution
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How a social media post started a safe staffing revolution

Jennifer Trueland Freelance health journalist

An exhausted nurse’s comments about the number of patients she was caring for prompted action on staffing ratios in Canada

Early this year, a social media post by a young Canadian nurse went viral – and started a movement on nurse-patient ratios.

Nursing Standard. 33, 5, 32-34. doi: 10.7748/ns.33.5.32.s15

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