China's growing reliance on lower-paid contract nurses may compromise patient care, new research suggests

Economic and health system reforms in China have dramatically reduced the number of traditional hospital nursing jobs. Now, more than half of nursing posts in many Chinese hospitals are now filled with contract-based nurses who work for lower pay, benefits and job security. A new study found significantly higher levels of dissatisfaction among contract nurses, and hospitals with a disproportionate number of contract nurses also had significantly higher levels of patient dissatisfaction, which pr...