Will adequate staffing improve patient outcomes? People do not like to be in a hospital, when a patient gets admitted to an acute care health care setting they are in a vulnerable state. They are seeking assistance with their illness and are relying on the health care professional for guidance, support and knowledge. Due to the current nursing shortage, the acute care setting is not adequately staffed to meet the demand. This quantitative study reviews the importance of staffing and protection of human participants; this review will help answer if the author:
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It is this writer’s belief that these findings are valid, having experienced short staffing in the hospital first hand gives me the confidence in these findings. One of the limitations in this study was that the researchers only focused in one hospital, and only on the adult patient population. One aspect that I enjoyed was the way the information, including the data was presented in an organized logical form the findings of this study, even though it was based in one hospital, have implications that can be applied to the general nursing community. This study shows how a patient s care can be compromised when there is not adequate staff. I believe that further studies should be researched on the implications that short staffing has on the all the patient populations; especially the specialty units, for not all nurses may be able to step in and care for the specialty unit population. One factor that this study brought to light was that even when the unit is short staffed, the nurse is able to distinguish when the patient is progressively getting sick, they were able to take necessary actions before the patient becomes critically ill. This type of critical thinking allows the nurse to intervene thus preventing the patient from a cardiac or pulmonary arrest. This type of nurse intervention does leave the other non-critical patient with less nursing
Was able to identify the benefits and risks of the participation?
What major variables were identified and defined?
What type of data management and analysis methods were used?
Are …show more content…
It is this writer’s belief that these findings are valid, having experienced short staffing in the hospital first hand gives me the confidence in these findings. One of the limitations in this study was that the researchers only focused in one hospital, and only on the adult patient population. One aspect that I enjoyed was the way the information, including the data was presented in an organized logical form the findings of this study, even though it was based in one hospital, have implications that can be applied to the general nursing community. This study shows how a patient s care can be compromised when there is not adequate staff. I believe that further studies should be researched on the implications that short staffing has on the all the patient populations; especially the specialty units, for not all nurses may be able to step in and care for the specialty unit population. One factor that this study brought to light was that even when the unit is short staffed, the nurse is able to distinguish when the patient is progressively getting sick, they were able to take necessary actions before the patient becomes critically ill. This type of critical thinking allows the nurse to intervene thus preventing the patient from a cardiac or pulmonary arrest. This type of nurse intervention does leave the other non-critical patient with less nursing