Nursing shortage

effects his or her emotions and decreases their motivation, which can lead to a decrease in patient care. Furthermore, this stress factor is causing more and more nurses to leave the field of nursing. It has been found that, “the vacancy rate for registered nurses continues to rise and currently stands at 8.5%” (Nursing Solutions Inc., 2016). There are several factors that cause a nurse burnout, they include, “long shifts, putting others first, busy high-stress environments, and dealing with…

Nursing Implications Caring for Loved Ones For nurses, the implications of death are an important part of the caregiver role. Often, family of the deceased look to nurses for hope, explanation, and as an outlet for the frustration surrounding death. Each patient, each story, each family is different. It is vitally important to remember this and make sure that each loved one and family member is given the appropriate space and time to mourn the loss of their loved one (Fast, 2003). Nurses are…

graduate will need to undergo a series of steps to adjust and transition to their new position, this has always been considered a very challenging, stressful and overwhelming time in the nurse’s life (Morrow 2009.) The first couple of months of nursing is the most stressful, demanding and challenging for new graduates (Kelly & Ahern, 2008.). it is not uncommon for students to feel unprepared, scared and have low self-esteem as they transition to graduate practice (Randle,…

Organizational Assessment This assignment will address the use of evidence based practice in a hospital in the metro area. Using assessment tools provided by the instructor, it is the goal of this assignment to look for areas of improvement in implementing evidence based practice by interviewing leaders and staff within the organization. Four staff nurses and two middle management individuals were surveyed. The staff nurse surveys are given more credence as to how well evidence-based…

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…

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 a ton of questions about your next assignment. It can be challenging to find housing…

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…

increase in unplanned extubations and a 16% increase in cardio-pulmonary arrest (Kane et al., 2007). A concise review performed by Penoyer in 2010 demonstrated a positive association of proper nurse staffing in the ICU with better patient outcomes. The nursing units…

issue could also make the residents uncompliant with other aspects of their care like taking their medications and participating with their scheduled therapies. The residents being uncompliant can make the shift harder and longer for the afternoon nursing…

While I was on nurse’s duty, a counselor told the nurses that their camper had been drinking all day and had yet to void. We, as the nursing staff, were given the information that he had drank a normal amount of fluid, had the urge to go, but was unable to go since the night prior. The nurses came together to give the counselor some advice on how to fix the situation. We collaborated and…