Labor shortage

Over many years, the nursing team has faced countless complications, physically and mentally, in the work setting. The basis of these complications arises from a low nurse-to-patient ratio. The typical ratio of one nurse to a multitude of patients has been proven to be detrimental to the nurse and patient. It can be harmful to the nurse by inflicting stress on himself or herself and to the patient by being subject to poor care that is given by the nurse. With a miniscule amount of nurses…

While being down a nurse or two on a unit may not seem like the end of the world to some, it is a huge crisis in hospitals these days. Understaffed nurses are being forced to take on more patients and pick up more overtime shifts to make up for the shortage of nurses. As Sung-Heui Bae points out in his article, “Presence of Nurse Mandatory Overtime Regulations and Nurse and Patient Outcomes,” this in turn puts patient at a high risk for nosocomial infections, falls, and even medication errors…

The statistical test to find out the correlation between work fatigue with the nurse performance in giving nursing care, showed very strong inverted relationship (p =-0807). Thus, it can be concluded that increased work fatigue can lead to decreased performance of nurses. According to the authors, work fatigue occurs due to excessive workload. It caused the increasing number of patients exceeds to total bed capacity, whereas the number of nurses is inadequate. On the other hand, the nurses are…

Travel Nurse Housing 101 POSTED BY JESSICA ABHAT / CAREER ADVICE, TRAVEL NURSE HOUSING Questions about travel nurse housing can be answered in one Google search, but as your research will demonstrate, not all staffing agencies are created equally. I’ve been a travel housing coordinator for years. Having worked for more than one travel nursing agency, I’ve seen the good and the bad. I’ve heard the same questions more times than I can count so I know that housing can be very stressful. You have…

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…