Economic shortage

The call bell system is a major part of the communication between the patient in the healthcare staff. It provides notification to all hospital staff that assistance is required for the patient. However, with numerous conflict regarding the call bell system, its purpose is in disarray. The call bell system is an important part of safety issue as it can prevent falls, accidents and injury by notifying everyone that assistance is required by the patient, especially those who have weakness or other…

competitive in today’s working conditions. Work engagement is seen as vital for survival, sustainability and growth of the organizations (Matula and Uon, 2016). Work engagement in professional nurse has four important factors converge (1) A global shortage of nurses who are the largest group of healthcare providers (2) Political resolve to restrain the growth of rising healthcare costs in industrialized nations (3) A medical error rate that threatens the health of nations and (4) Quality of…

Applying Theory to a Practice Problem: Part 2: Application of Middle-Range Theory to Problem The shortage of Nurses and retention of present Nurses is reaching critical levels throughout my institution. Some of the reasons for the shortages are due to the long hours worked by Nurses which cause fatigue and burnout and mandatory overtime that nurses are expected to work. My paper will address how nursing shortages, retention, and staffing affects patients comfort and safety. Description of the…

environment. When your stress it can cause you to not provide patient needs effectively and your needs. It can also result in ineffective problem solving, changes in communication and alterations in behavior. Stress sometimes plays the role in the shortage of nurses and burnout. Nurse burnout happens because of emotional exhaustion, prolonged stress, depersonalization and reduced personal…

In order to find literature to review pertaining to the issue of staffing shortages for nurse, the SNHU Shapiro Library was used. The databases used for the search included: CINAHL Complete, and MEDLINE and EBSCOhost. The keywords entered were nursing staff shortages. This produced too many articles on nursing staff. To improve the results and the amount of resources found, the keywords understaffing nurses were used, along with the advanced search to search for a boolean/phrase to further…

According to Doctor Koocher and Doctor Keith-Spiegel, the responsibility of a mental health professional is to “take care to do no harm seek to safeguard the welfare and rights of [patients] when conflicts occur attempt to resolve these conflicts in a responsible fashion that avoids or minimizes harm [and be] alert to and guard against personal, social, organizational or political factors that might lead to misuse of influence,” (Koocher & Keith-Spiegel, 2008, p. 551). Webster Dictionary defines…

Mercy College defines integrity as, “Moral wholeness, soundness, uprightness, honesty and sincerity as the basis of trustworthiness.” I personally feel that integrity encompasses not only all of these characteristics, but also the ability to apply these characteristics in one’s everyday life. Someone who displays true integrity does not act honestly and sincerely just in easy situations, but also in the most difficult. Integrity is a value everyone should strive to perfect both professionally…

Grace Kondourajian Mrs. Klenke English III, Period 4 3 December 2015 Nursing Needs The nurses of every hospital are the glue that keeps things running smoothly and proficiently. Decades have suffered from the shortage of nurses all around the world. The shortage of nurses is an issue that affects almost every branch of health care. USA today addressed the topic with some shocking statistics: A cohort of nurses entered the profession in the 1970s have aged into their 60s and are getting…

Nursing entails compassion, sacrifice, empathy, love, patience, advocacy, and care. All healthcare workers, especially nurses, are taught early in their careers quality patient care is always number one priority. Despite the emphasis on communication as a way of effectively providing care, some nurses do not follow protocol. This causes devastating effects not only for the nurse’s coworkers, but, unfortunately, the patient. Occasionally, lack of communication is inevitable within the medical…

It is projected that these shortages will only increase over the next decade, which is frightening to learn, especially as the population continues to grow and continue to live longer (Zinn et al., 2012). In order to have this issue improved, ideas have emerged to help to resolve the nursing shortage. This discussion not only presents itself with finding a remedy that will alleviate this, but also looks at the legality…