Kalisch Beatrice J, Liu Yilan
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Nurs Econ. 2009 Sep-Oct;27(5):322-31.
Nursing in China and the United States was compare with special emphasis on nurse supply, demographic characteristics of nurses, educational programs, and staffing patterns and levels. In China, there were a total of 18,703 hospitals with 2,445,012 beds compared 5,756 hospitals with 946,997 beds in the United States. There are 1.05 nurses per 1,000 population in China as contrasted with 9.37 in the United States. In terms of staffing levels in acute care hospitals, a comparison of two similar surgical and ICU patient care units in each country revealed a lower ratio of nurses to patients, particular at night, in China. Both countries are challenged by issues of cost and quality of health care and both report current and anticipated future shortages of nurses with China being much more severe. Given these facts, the idea of recruiting Chinese nurses to the United States is ill advised.
对中国和美国的护理情况进行了比较，特别强调了护士供给、护士的人口统计学特征、教育项目以及人员配备模式和水平。中国共有18703家医院，床位2445012张，而美国有5756家医院，床位946997张。中国每千人口中有1.05名护士，而美国为9.37名。就急症护理医院的人员配备水平而言，对两国各两个类似的外科和重症监护病房的患者护理单元进行比较发现，中国护士与患者的比例较低，尤其是在夜间。两国都面临着医疗保健成本和质量问题，且都报告了当前和预期未来的护士短缺情况，其中中国的情况更为严重。鉴于这些事实，招募中国护士到美国的想法是不明智的。
