Bedside nurses want to adjust staffing levels to ensure they have enough time to keep up with ever-changing healthcare and to provide safe care to patients. However, healthcare employers believe that reducing nurse-to-patient ratios is an unnecessary expense that has not been shown to improve the quality of patient care (Unruh, 2008). Employers point out that increasing the level of nurse staffing is not cost-effective. In fact, according to the ANA report (2013), a study published in the Journal of Health Care Finance, confirmed that the reduction of the patient-nurse ratio increased hospital costs, but did not decrease their profitability. The increased hospital costs were attributed to the wages and benefits awarded to newly hired nurses. However, according to Cimiotti et al (20112), it is more costly for hospitals not to invest money in nursing care. As reported by Bowron (2010), hospitals will benefit from reducing patient-nurse ratios by saving money. Bowron points out that an adequate staffing ratio could significantly reduce hospitals' costs in the following ways: • Changes in patient status would be detected and treated in a timely manner. • Patients would recover more quickly, thus decreasing the length of hospital stay. • There would be fewer medication errors and fewer complications. • There would be less overtime costs. • Reducing nurses' workload would lead to less nursing care