The dataset for relationship between the nurses to patients ratio and patients satisfaction with nursing care.

The nurse to patient ratio is one of the impressive nursing care features. Evaluation of patient satisfaction with nursing care according to the number of available agents can be a valuable tool for understanding the quality of service the patient receive it used to adjust appropriate strategies. This data article involved 402 patients who were ready for discharge, in East Gilan hospitals in Iran in 2013. Data were collected through questionnaires PSI. Its validity and internal consistency reliability (Cronbach׳s alpha) were 90%. The obtained data showed that there are differences in nurses to patients ratio in hospitals and mean satisfaction was 72.6 ± 17.8. However, no relationship was found between patient satisfaction and nurses to patients ratio. Patients' satisfaction with nursing care, regardless of the nurses to patients ratio indicates that nurses are trying to attract the patient׳s consent under any circumstances. In the intensive care unit was a decrease in the number of patients each nurse to provide more direct attention leads more satisfaction.

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Value of the data

These data can be used by other researchers to perform more detailed studies.

These data can be used by hospital managers to adjust the nurse to patient ratio.

These data can be useful for clinical sector managers to implement plans to select nurses with possibly higher satisfaction.

Data

In this study, 402 patients were studied. The average age of patients participating in the study was 50.75 ± 20.8 years. 50.30% of the samples were women and 49.70% were male.

Table 1 shows the average and standard deviation of patient satisfaction in selected hospitals. Table 2 shows the average and standard deviation of nurse to patient ratio in selected hospitals. The average ratio of nurses to patients in the hospital Kosar had the highest proportion and the proportion in the Ansari hospital was very close to it. The lowest ratio of nurses to patients was in the Roudsar hospital and then Lahijan hospital. The study of hospital in terms of nurse to patients had significant differences (Table 2). Table 3 presents the average and standard deviation of nurse to patient ratio in selected hospitals. Table 4 shows the relationship between two variable of the ratio of nurses to patients and patients satisfaction.

Table 1

Average and standard deviation of patient satisfaction in selected hospitals and according to different groups.

Total satisfaction	Mean	SD
Roodsar	73	16.8
Lahijan	69.8	19.9
Langrood	75.6	16.2
Ansari	72.9	14.2
Kosar	71.5	20.7
Total	72.6	17.8
Gender
Women	72.2	17.6
Men	73	17.9
Total	72.6	17.8
Marital situation
Single	72.6	17.8
Married	72.5	17.8
Total	72.5	17.8
Education
No education	71.4	18.8
Elementary	73	17.3
Middle school	75.9	17.2
High school	73.3	16.2
University degree	66.6	17.7
Total	73.3	17.7
Job
Farmer or worker	76.3	17.4
Office employee	77.3	18.3
No job	68.2	15.9
House wife	71.4	19.3
Student	70.7	14.1
Others	73.2	17.8
Total	73.3	18.2
Place of residence
Urban	72.9	17.9
Rural	71.9	17.6
Total	72.6	17.8
Insurance
Yes	72.7	17.8
No	71.1	17
Total	72.6	17.8

Table 2

Average and standard deviation of nurse to patient ratio in selected hospitals.

	Average	Standard deviation
Roodsar	0.36	0.36
Lahijan	0.41	0.33
Langrood	0.47	0.25
Ansari	0.78	0.43
Kosar	0.84	0.58
Total	0.53	0.45

Table 3

Average and standard deviation of nurse satisfaction according to different groups.

Nurse satisfaction	Mean	SD
Gender
Men	52.4	13.9
Women	55	8.2
Total	52.5	13.7
Employment status
Permanent	53.6	12.5
Contractual 1	50	14.4
Contractual 2	52	14.4
Student duty	56.1	13
Other	53.6	17.8
Total	52.5	13.7
Age groups
20–30	50.8	13.6
31–40	54.4	15.5
41–50	56.5	11.5
51–60	48.9	10.4
Total	52.5	13.7
Job experience
<5	53.1	12.8
6–10	51.6	17.6
11–15	52.3	9.2
16–20	49.3	10.1
21–25	51.4	13.1
26–30	60.3	9.1
Total	52.5	13.7

Table 4

The relationship between two variable of the ratio of nurses to patients and patient satisfaction.

		Patient satisfaction
The ratio of nurses to patients	Correlation coefficient	−0.026
	P-value	0.599

Experimental design, materials and methods

This research is an applied-field research which utilized cross-correlation method and conducted in 2013. Study population consisted of hospitals patients and nurses employed in the hospitals in East Gilan. A checklist related to indicators such as the number of hospital beds, the number of nurses per shift and the number of hospitalized patients were filled.

Two questionnaires were prepared and filled by patients and nurses separately. Demographic characteristics of participants were recorded. In case of patients, demographic characteristics included gender, age, martial situation, education, job, insurance, and place of residence. Demographic characteristics of nurses included gender, age, employment situation, and job experience. The number of satisfaction questions of patients and nurses were 31 and 41, respectively. Participants were informed about the purpose of study and content of questionnaires. They were assured that their answers will be only used for this research. Sheet satisfaction survey was completed by patients at the time of discharge. Demographic characteristics of participants are presented in Table 5.

Table 5

Demographic characteristics of participants.

Characteristics	Number
Education
No education	87
Elementary	81
Middle School	99
High school	29
University degree	11
Job
Farmer	39
Worker	20
Office employee	35
No job	8
House wife	126
Student	18
Others	79
Insurance
Yes	321
No	26
Place of residence
Urban	271
Rural	93

Some operational limits were considered in study design, which using the other studies, these limitations were reduced [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [12]. Sampling in areas such as pediatric, psychiatric wards, ICU, dialysis unit and in every wards if patients were not able to speak they were removed from the unit. For the same conditions, sampling was performed at discharge. SPSS software was used to analyze the data.

Subject area	Nursing
More specific subject area	Health-care
Type of data	Tables
How data were acquired	These data were acquired from hospitals patients and nurses employed in the hospitals in East Guilan.
Data format	Raw and analyzed
Experimental factors	Some operational limits were considered in study design. Samplings in areas such as pediatric, psychiatric wards, ICU, dialysis unit and in every wards if patients were not able to speak were removed from the unit.
Experimental features	The participants filled the PSI questionnaire and a checklist. Satisfaction survey sheet was completed by patients at the time of discharge.
Data source location	East Guilan, Guilan province, Iran.
Data accessibility	Data are included in this article
Related research article	L.H. Aiken, D.M. Sloane, J. Ball, L. Bruyneel, A.M. Rafferty, P. Griffiths, Patient satisfaction with hospital care and nurses in England: an observational study, BMJ open. 8 (2017) e019189-e019189.[1]