To conduct the study, researchers used data on 11,123 patients at 36 hospitals in California, Florida, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, all of whom participated in three surveys and registries: the American Heart Association’s Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation Registry for 2013-18, RN4CAST-US hospital nurse surveys for 2015-16 and the American Hospital Association for 2015. Thirty-three to 86 percent of nurses at hospitals in the datasets had BSNs, with a mean of 61 percent.
The researchers found patients who experienced in-hospital cardiac arrest had a 24 percent greater chance of survival to discharge with each 10 percentage-point increase in the hospital’s share of nurses with a BSN.
The study supports growing evidence that higher numbers of BSNs among nursing staff lead to better patient outcomes.
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