Nurses with higher education decrease patient deaths

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I did noticed that they used a small sample size to draw this conclusion. However, is there any (real) evidence that supports this? I have linked the entire news letter below

http://www.thehealthlawpartners.com/docs/5132013.pdf Pg8 (says 55 )

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I'd like to know if this study controlled for nursing experience, hospital size, and staffing levels. Your links don't show that. In fact, no study has ever shown a causal link between degree and outcome.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.

There have been a myriad of published studies on the topic. As well as pages and pages and pages of lively debate on AN.

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Specializes in LTC.

Did you try using the AllNurses search function? There is a quite a bit of research posted in the many many posts on the topic.

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I couldn't read it. I am pro BSN as entry-level going forward, but of all the things that could be contributing to bad outcomes, this one would be low the list.

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Did you try using the AllNurses search function? There is a quite a bit of research posted in the many many posts on the topic.

Somewhat, I didn't see anything recent though.

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