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Minimum Nursing Home Staffing Standards: A Good Start, But Not Quite There

AJN Off the Charts

An abundance of qualitative interviews, surveys, listening sessions, and comments from the public yielded the following staffing requirements: Minimum staffing hours per resident day (HPRD) for registered nurses (RNs)—0.55 HPRD—and nurse aides (NAs)—2.45 Sources Appropriateness of minimum nurse staffing ratios in nursing homes.