In healthcare, nurses play an integral role in ensuring better patient outcomes. This implies that all the state mandated ratios are very important in ensuring that the patients are safe and the nurses as well. Adequate nurse staffing is key to better patient outcomes and nurse retention whereas inadequate nurse staffing endangers the lives of the patients and leads to nurse turnovers. This project tries to answer the PICOT question, Will limiting the number of patients a nurse can take care of improve the care on patient units. The paper will explain the clinical question, critique three research articles on this subject, discuss the significance to nursing, and discuss my methodology used to search for these articles. Patient safety and
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PICOT question: Will limiting the number of patients a nurse can take care of improve the patient on critical care units? The purpose of my paper is to answer the PICOT that I will be describing further, it will hopefully be determined if lower nurse to patient ratios will improve patient safety and over all outcome. The results of a PICOT question will benefit patients and nursing staff by improving safety and patient care. P: Critical care patient I: Decrease the amount of patient per nurse C: Hire more nurses to help with patient overload O: To promote patient safety and decrease nurse burnout T: Within the next couple of years. Study has monitored the amount of nurse to patient ratio and how does it affect patient life. The New England Journal of Medicine and it is titled Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitals as stated in the article “It is uncertain whether lower levels of staffing by nurses at hospital are associated with an increased risk that patients will have complications” (Needleman, …show more content…
In addition, the second method that was used is quantitative studies that reflect current factors that hinder, support and influence safe nurse staffing, which are appropriate when the results must show the relationship between a caused that leads to the staffing ratios. The purpose of this review is to evaluate nurse staffing related issues and its impact on healthcare. Safe staffing has a large impact on patient mortality, Patient satisfaction, increased incidence of medical errors and nurse dissatisfaction and burnout. Review of literature was limited to the last five years for a total of 15 articles were reviewed and critiqued. With consideration to article two, the methods that are being used is the qualitative method and analysis method that consists of the outcome of a naturalistic inquiry that bases results on the analysis of meaning, generally in words so numerical value has less reliance (Houser, 2015). The participants in these samples include the staffing registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurses’ aide. In regarding for
PICOT question: Will limiting the number of patients a nurse can take care of improve the patient on critical care units? The purpose of my paper is to answer the PICOT that I will be describing further, it will hopefully be determined if lower nurse to patient ratios will improve patient safety and over all outcome. The results of a PICOT question will benefit patients and nursing staff by improving safety and patient care. P: Critical care patient I: Decrease the amount of patient per nurse C: Hire more nurses to help with patient overload O: To promote patient safety and decrease nurse burnout T: Within the next couple of years. Study has monitored the amount of nurse to patient ratio and how does it affect patient life. The New England Journal of Medicine and it is titled Nurse-staffing levels and the quality of care in hospitals as stated in the article “It is uncertain whether lower levels of staffing by nurses at hospital are associated with an increased risk that patients will have complications” (Needleman, …show more content…
In addition, the second method that was used is quantitative studies that reflect current factors that hinder, support and influence safe nurse staffing, which are appropriate when the results must show the relationship between a caused that leads to the staffing ratios. The purpose of this review is to evaluate nurse staffing related issues and its impact on healthcare. Safe staffing has a large impact on patient mortality, Patient satisfaction, increased incidence of medical errors and nurse dissatisfaction and burnout. Review of literature was limited to the last five years for a total of 15 articles were reviewed and critiqued. With consideration to article two, the methods that are being used is the qualitative method and analysis method that consists of the outcome of a naturalistic inquiry that bases results on the analysis of meaning, generally in words so numerical value has less reliance (Houser, 2015). The participants in these samples include the staffing registered nurses, licensed practical nurses and nurses’ aide. In regarding for