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should be the ultimate goal of any health care interaction. Unfortunately, reality and outside forces make perfect patient outcomes hard to achieve. Safe staffing practices are one such outside force that alter patient outcomes. The current nursing shortage complicates staffing patterns as higher levels of patients are requiring health care. This research article does a good job at establishing reasonable, and attainable staffing pattern guidelines. Nursing is one such health care profession…

at a job until retirement have gone by the wayside. The next ten to twenty years are predicted to have a shortage in nursing (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). Administrations and managements systems are diligently studying the possible strategies to promote productivity, decrease call outs and improve retention in the positions (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). The prediction of a shortage of nurses by the year 2018 will be augmented with nurse retiring, changes in healthcare delivery and…

Bedside Reporting Policy Everyday throughout many hospitals and acute care facilities, nurses are receiving and handing off shift report at nursing stations. Handling report at the desk in no way involves visualizing the actual patient, or including them in their own plan of care. This way of reporting is becoming a huge safety issue and is leaving enormous room for miscommunication and error. Many hospitals around the world have begun to implement a mandatory bedside reporting policy. This…

that highschool graduates were more likely to look into other career options. The main reason for this could be the low pay levels that Nurses in Victoria are currently receiving.also the demand for nurses are increasing. main causes of nursing shortages in most high-income countries are related to demographic change: to an ageing population (). In conclution nursing it can be said that more needs to be done and more money needs to be invested in this career to encourage individuals to make…

Evaluating the statistics of the same study, Kane et al (2007) also explored what would happen in instances where additional patients were added to a RNs assignment. The study indicated that 1 additional patient was associated with an 8% increased chance of hospital mortality. This increase of 1 patient per RN also related to a 7% increase of hospital-acquired pneumonia, 8% increase of failure to rescue (assuming a code situation), a 53% increase in respiratory failure, a 45% increase in…

It seems that George Quinteras the weekend afternoon charge nurse feels that you are not doing your job correctly. It also seems he feels that if you were doing your job correctly it would make things during his shift go smoother. George seems to feel that you do not appreciate the work that he does over the weekend during the afternoon shift. He also seems to be blaming you for problems and issues that you may not even be in control over. For example in one of the handwritten notes he left…

(ANA, n.d.), numerous studies reveal an association between higher levels of experienced RN staffing and lower rates of adverse patient outcomes. It is a major patient safety issue when there is such a high census of extremely ill patient and a shortage of nurses. This places a higher workload on the nurses and increases the chances of errors. “The ICU risk of death increased by a factor of 3.5 (1.3–9.1) when the number of patients was above 2.5 per nurse and by a factor of 2.0 (1.3–3.2) when…

The atmosphere at Easter Seals required a great deal of communication between all the volunteers and staff. The communication at camp is necessary to ensure safety and fun while the children are at camp for the weekend. I saw a great deal of communication between the directors, nurses, consolers, and cooking staff. There were times that there had to be a large amount of communication between all the staff but, I was also able to see the communication that occurred within one field when a problem…

Barriers to the HTIs described in the medication process pertain to technical, environmental, and human issues. For example, technical issues such as network failures or unforeseen power outages could prevent the nurse from accessing the CPRS. As a result, the nurse would be unable to view the patient’s EHR, verify orders, assess contraindications, and/or obtain details necessary to meet the “five rights” of the medication administration process (Edwards & Axe, 2015; Hunter, 2011). Likewise,…