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Penn in the News
A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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More nurses means better care—So why did this ballot measure fail?
A recent study authored by Linda Aiken of the School of Nursing and the School of Arts and Sciences was mentioned in a discussion of a failed Massachusetts measure that would have implemented mandatory patient-to-nurse ratios. “Better-staffed hospitals with good work environments actually returned lower mortality for the same or lower cost,” said Aiken.
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To Improve Higher Education, Scale Back Federal Involvement
America’s colleges and universities are terribly inefficient and excessively expensive, foster relatively little learning and ability to think critically, and turn out too many graduates who end up underemployed.