[Evaluation of care conditions in intensive care units : Results of an online questionnaire of critical care nurses].

In the following article, selected results of a descriptive study on personnel staffing and patients' care in intensive care units in Germany are presented and discussed. The main focus is laid on comparing features of personnel staffing with indicators of job satisfaction and patients' care. The study is based on an online questionnaire of critical care nurses run in 2017. The article represents the data of 2233 included German critical care nurses. The main results are the following: a low nurse patient ratio (≥1:3) in intensive care units has the tendency to cause higher risks in patients' care and shows lower job satisfaction than nurses with higher nurse-patient ratio (≤1:2).