Knowledge Becoming Privilege
Storch describes one of the issues currently faced by the field of nursing as the imbalance between institutional values and nursing values. A sub issue within this imbalance is efficiency as a value, which describes a strive to create more efficient systems based upon business practices. This strive is due to numerous issues, such as insufficient staffing, layoffs, hiring freezes, and altered work expectations. Due to nursing lay-offs, “this meant that therapeutic and relational caring was no longer wanted by some of those in charge of health care” (Storch 2010). Consequences of these lay-offs included many, such as devaluing the nursing profession and its people to a mere profession that practically anyone could …show more content…
Economics as a value, which includes the inefficient waste of materials, time, and emotional energy, is also a sizable issue in the field of nursing. Storch describes this challenge as situation including “poor policy-making regarding, for example, early discharges as cause of frequent patient readmissions; of poorly financed and supervised contracted housekeeping as cause of increasing infection rates in hospital: and of the disregard of nurses’ voices in helping administrators and policy-makers know what actually happens on the front line of care” (Storch 2010). The third and final sub issue within the imbalance between institutional values and nursing values is objectivity as a value. This is primarily due to the need for nurses to emotionally detach themselves and suppress their emotions while practicing. This allows them to remain objective and to keep their goals of patient care in mind while not letting their emotions interfere with their quality of care. To successfully begin the elimination of these dilemmas, one must first recognize the problems at hand. Insufficient staffing of nursing personal has been an everlasting issue in the nursing field which has showed a direct correlation with job dissatisfaction …show more content…
When facing economics as a value in a hospital, the management of finances is perceptibly vital. Some areas that have been lacking these funds are in the housekeeping departments. To approach this issue directly, I believe that housekeeping should not be hired from third parties, and should be engrained within the hospital and collaborate with infection control employees to maintain proper sanitary procedures and cautionary measures. Also within this value, is the issue of the disregard of nurses voicing their opinions, which interlinks with my ideas above and proved to be of utmost importance to eliminate many nursing issues, including early discharges that may have arisen due to a decrease in bedside time and therapeutic care provided by nursing personnel. While considering the fact that many of these issues can be eliminated in multiples as they’re interlinked, objectivity within their practice can only be eliminated if nurses are educated further in the field of clinical ethics, which will not only allow them to remain objective while expressing notions of compassion and utmost level of sympathy, empathy, and care, but to better handle
Storch describes one of the issues currently faced by the field of nursing as the imbalance between institutional values and nursing values. A sub issue within this imbalance is efficiency as a value, which describes a strive to create more efficient systems based upon business practices. This strive is due to numerous issues, such as insufficient staffing, layoffs, hiring freezes, and altered work expectations. Due to nursing lay-offs, “this meant that therapeutic and relational caring was no longer wanted by some of those in charge of health care” (Storch 2010). Consequences of these lay-offs included many, such as devaluing the nursing profession and its people to a mere profession that practically anyone could …show more content…
Economics as a value, which includes the inefficient waste of materials, time, and emotional energy, is also a sizable issue in the field of nursing. Storch describes this challenge as situation including “poor policy-making regarding, for example, early discharges as cause of frequent patient readmissions; of poorly financed and supervised contracted housekeeping as cause of increasing infection rates in hospital: and of the disregard of nurses’ voices in helping administrators and policy-makers know what actually happens on the front line of care” (Storch 2010). The third and final sub issue within the imbalance between institutional values and nursing values is objectivity as a value. This is primarily due to the need for nurses to emotionally detach themselves and suppress their emotions while practicing. This allows them to remain objective and to keep their goals of patient care in mind while not letting their emotions interfere with their quality of care. To successfully begin the elimination of these dilemmas, one must first recognize the problems at hand. Insufficient staffing of nursing personal has been an everlasting issue in the nursing field which has showed a direct correlation with job dissatisfaction …show more content…
When facing economics as a value in a hospital, the management of finances is perceptibly vital. Some areas that have been lacking these funds are in the housekeeping departments. To approach this issue directly, I believe that housekeeping should not be hired from third parties, and should be engrained within the hospital and collaborate with infection control employees to maintain proper sanitary procedures and cautionary measures. Also within this value, is the issue of the disregard of nurses voicing their opinions, which interlinks with my ideas above and proved to be of utmost importance to eliminate many nursing issues, including early discharges that may have arisen due to a decrease in bedside time and therapeutic care provided by nursing personnel. While considering the fact that many of these issues can be eliminated in multiples as they’re interlinked, objectivity within their practice can only be eliminated if nurses are educated further in the field of clinical ethics, which will not only allow them to remain objective while expressing notions of compassion and utmost level of sympathy, empathy, and care, but to better handle