Table 4

Missed care by levels of registered nurse staffing

Overall number of missed care aspects	Patients per registered nurse
	up to 6.13		6.14–7.33		7.40–9.25		9.33–11.50		11.67 and over		All
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
	3.06	2.98	4.13	3.17	4.16	2.98	4.38	2.99	4.36	3.02	4.00	3.07
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
One or more aspects of missed care	472	78	457	87	474	90	520	91	483	89	2406	87
Comfort/talk with patients	340	56	345	66	365	69	408	71	383	71	1841	66
Educating patients and family	268	44	276	53	280	53	340	59	284	52	1448	52
Develop or update nursing care plans/care pathways	225	37	268	51	253	48	288	50	261	48	1295	47
Adequate patient surveillance	135	22	169	32	195	37	229	40	237	44	965	35
Adequately document nursing care	134	22	190	36	199	38	204	36	193	36	920	33
Oral hygiene	130	22	154	29	166	31	176	31	179	33	805	29
Frequent changing of patient position	136	23	168	32	154	29	169	29	157	29	784	28
Planning care	117	19	154	29	142	27	183	32	170	31	766	28
Administer medications on time	101	17	121	23	116	22	136	24	156	29	630	23
Skin care	78	13	120	23	118	22	135	24	133	25	584	21
Prepare patients and families for discharge	108	18	107	20	103	20	124	22	116	21	558	20
Treatments and procedures	46	8	57	11	65	12	72	13	66	12	306	11
Pain management	36	6	42	8	38	7	50	9	29	5	195	7