Clinical Question
The problem this paper addresses is whether the nursing-staffing ratio has any part in patient care left undone. The significance of this problem is that the neglected care can lead to several serious patient safety issues. The clinical question guiding this research for a quantitative article is: Do higher nurse to patient ratio affect patient care? Will better nurse to patient ratio result in fewer hospital related mortalities and other patient outcomes?
Problem
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the health outcomes resulting from low nursing staff would be higher mortality rates, hospital acquired infections, and unmet basic patient care.
Many medical errors happen due to the inefficient delivery of care in the hospitals. According to an article by The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1999, legislation was passed in California that mandated a lower patient to nurse ratio for its hospitals, which went in effect in July 2003. This was because the nurses were experiencing higher levels of job related burnouts which lead to job dissatisfaction and unmet patient care. Another article states, “There is also a need to understand mechanisms which link nurse staffing to quality and safety outcomes—including our focus here—the nature and extent of care that might be being ‘left undone’” (BMJ Quality and Safety 2013). The patient to nurse ratio is sometimes so high that the nurses fail to identify the outcomes, which could lead up to patient mortality. …show more content…
We will discuss how higher nurse staffing ratio, which is the independent variable in the study, brings better patient care and reduced amount of adverse events. A systematic review of the literature on in-hospital adverse events was performed in the used
The problem this paper addresses is whether the nursing-staffing ratio has any part in patient care left undone. The significance of this problem is that the neglected care can lead to several serious patient safety issues. The clinical question guiding this research for a quantitative article is: Do higher nurse to patient ratio affect patient care? Will better nurse to patient ratio result in fewer hospital related mortalities and other patient outcomes?
Problem
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the health outcomes resulting from low nursing staff would be higher mortality rates, hospital acquired infections, and unmet basic patient care.
Many medical errors happen due to the inefficient delivery of care in the hospitals. According to an article by The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1999, legislation was passed in California that mandated a lower patient to nurse ratio for its hospitals, which went in effect in July 2003. This was because the nurses were experiencing higher levels of job related burnouts which lead to job dissatisfaction and unmet patient care. Another article states, “There is also a need to understand mechanisms which link nurse staffing to quality and safety outcomes—including our focus here—the nature and extent of care that might be being ‘left undone’” (BMJ Quality and Safety 2013). The patient to nurse ratio is sometimes so high that the nurses fail to identify the outcomes, which could lead up to patient mortality. …show more content…
We will discuss how higher nurse staffing ratio, which is the independent variable in the study, brings better patient care and reduced amount of adverse events. A systematic review of the literature on in-hospital adverse events was performed in the used