A chief nursing officer (CNO) wants to respond to a threatened reduction in nursing positions in a ...

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A costbenefit analysis is a powerful tool for justifying investments into nursing care.
A nationwide comparison of nursepatient ratios might yield important information, but information that is national in scope is easily dismissed as someone else's problem and might not convince administrators of the value of nursing care in this hospital.
Hospital administrators are not elected to their positions, so political pressure probably would not garner the desired results.
Cost-minimization strategies are rarely useful in health care settings because of the variability in interventions and outcomes.