At times, work can be very stressful and sometimes can be short staff on certain shifts. This has led to numerous amounts of falls and important tubes being pulled at the hospital. Everyone is so busy that at times it hard to keep an eye on the patients that are at risk for falls. Being a neuro floor means patients come in with head injuries and can be very combative at times. Being short staff has led to a lot of nurses leaving to go to other places of work. Night shift lost a total of 8 nurses in a two-month period. This can be very challenging to keep staff that are experienced and skilled. This then entails that staff can be short-staffed and overworked with extra patient ratio. Experienced staff and including new grad nurses want to
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New nurses feel the stress and the work overload with no help which also puts the risk of safety for patients. A patient ratio of 4 to 1 is helpful for new grads for a period of 6 month to get acquainted to the position. Eventually if it becomes short, they may have to get ratio of 5 to 1. This only makes the new nurse feel overwhelmed and leaving work late due to documentation that isn’t finished. Patient falls have increased, medication increased, and tubes in general also have increased. Even with experienced staff, this can also be an issue. A shortage of nurse can sometimes lead to patient falls. This can be detrimental for patients and can add a number of extended days in the hospital. This is costly to the hospital and issues like this puts a burden on the staff and supervisors. Not to mention families can be worries if a fall happens to their loved one. How can issues like this be corrected? Or even be possibly looked at? What benefits would there be with a California legislation to help nurses and patients. Would safety be better. The existing literature exist to contribute with safe patient to nurse ratio. Sometimes the literature doesn’t evaluate every particular hospital or facility but at times things can be changed to help with
New nurses feel the stress and the work overload with no help which also puts the risk of safety for patients. A patient ratio of 4 to 1 is helpful for new grads for a period of 6 month to get acquainted to the position. Eventually if it becomes short, they may have to get ratio of 5 to 1. This only makes the new nurse feel overwhelmed and leaving work late due to documentation that isn’t finished. Patient falls have increased, medication increased, and tubes in general also have increased. Even with experienced staff, this can also be an issue. A shortage of nurse can sometimes lead to patient falls. This can be detrimental for patients and can add a number of extended days in the hospital. This is costly to the hospital and issues like this puts a burden on the staff and supervisors. Not to mention families can be worries if a fall happens to their loved one. How can issues like this be corrected? Or even be possibly looked at? What benefits would there be with a California legislation to help nurses and patients. Would safety be better. The existing literature exist to contribute with safe patient to nurse ratio. Sometimes the literature doesn’t evaluate every particular hospital or facility but at times things can be changed to help with