Widower Sues Wife's Workplace After Crash Video Analysis

In the video, Widower Sues Wife’s Workplace After Crash, some concerns raised by the widower were the long hours’ his wife was required to work, her facility being short staffed, and the amount of stress that was involved in her position. I agree most nurses work long hours, they work overtime to cover the shortage of staff, they have an increased workload with high intensity of stress. I can certainly relate to his wife possibly falling asleep on her way home. There have been several times in my career that I have driven home exhausted and honestly don’t remember most of the drive. As nurses, we need to know our limitations and we must learn to take care of ourselves by getting rest and learning to say no to extra shifts and overtime. Medical facilities need to step up and provide the staff that is needed to take care of the patients. Hiring more staff promotes safe nurse/ patient ratio, which decreases workload, and stress. They need to train all staff om the unit to run specialized equipment so the burden does not lay on one or two nurses. These are underlying factors which may have prevented this accident. …show more content…
These all are positive effects on a health care system for having staffing ratios. A con for this bill would be several organizations may not be able to afford to hire the additional nursing staff, which could cause facilities to close or cause patient costs to increase. With the shortage of nurses now, I am wondering if they have taken into consideration that facilities may mandate nurses to work extended shifts to meet these requirements? Overall, I believe there are more pros than cons in the H. R. 2083 /S. 1132, Registered Nurse Safe Staffing