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The Herzberg two-factor principle theory categorizes human needs into hygiene factors and motivating factors. Poor hygiene factors and motivating factors can decrease nurses' productivity. Examples of hygiene factors are working conditions, co-worker relations, policies and rules, and supervisor quality. Unsafe patient-staff ratios can negatively impact nurses. Examples of motivating factors are achievements, recognition, responsibility, and personal growth. Increased patient-to-staff ratios increase nurses' responsibility. So, for my mid-range theory, I use the Herzberg two-factor principle theory. It is pretty much the theory of human needs and it categorizes these needs into two broad categories. The first one is hygiene factors and the second is motivating factors. So, the basis of it is saying that poor hygiene factors and or motivating factors can decrease the productivity of a person, in this case nurses, in the workplace. So, some hygiene factors that are examples are working condition, co-worker relations, policies and rules, and supervisor quality. So, with working condition, I consider unsafe patient-staff ratios to be under working condition and this gives an example of how it could hurt the nurses. And then under motivational factors, some examples are achievements, recognition, responsibility and personal growth. And with increased patient-to-staff ratios, it also increases the responsibility of the nurses.