Nursing shortage

hospitals these days: especially with the increasing numbers of hospitalized patients and a decrease in the amount of nursing staff available. 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…

Benefits of nursing engagement. In recent years, the nurse engagement is considered as one of the positive organizational behaviors which are essential for organizations coping with new challenges to remain 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…

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 that must adhere to safe staffing schedules to ensure quality patient outcomes. A group of nurses set out to establish safe staffing guidelines for on-call nursing staff in surgical departments. On-call…

Vacation scheduling may mean that there is a shortage of available nurses to do the jobs (Waddillgoad, Suzane ,2017). When there are many nurses on vacation or taking vacation at the same time, there will be more stress for the remains working nurses in the department as there are a lot of work to be completed by a few nurses. I think when people are in stress, they cannot control their thoughts. A nurse may be anger at workload, and frustrated, and a nurse may have verbal abuse. I believe that…

Delegating in nursing goes beyond asking a nurse assistant to do something and walking away. When a nurse delegates both she or he and the delegate are held accountable and legally responsible for the whole continuum of the task delegated, yet the nurse is ultimately responsible. A prudent nurse must know what tasks can and cannot be delegated to the support staff providing assistance. The whole premise behind delegation comes from the overwhelming amount of nursing tasks and the need for…

restraints that limit them. With the many responsibility, Nurses, Nursing attendant, PCA, PCT, and other hospital staff usually disregard call bells and prioritize it last. At the same time when they push the call button, it is usually to summon for…

Nurse Ratched, the main nurse, is not only responsible for managing the ward which requires her to supervise the nursing staff, the orderlies and the dispensing of medication to patients, she also leads daily therapy group sessions for the men in the ward who are able to participate, voluntary or not. Since the movie released, the “Nurse Ratched” figure appears in every…

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…

Most people have a longing to get to the top of their company, whether by hard work and climbing the ladder, or by not what you know, but who you know. The longing to be on top is very common, but not only for monetary gain, but for one to achieve a certain level of power. It is an instinct that most of us have within, and it will be unleashed when we feel that where we are currently is not where we want to stay permanently. Most people come into a company wanting to be noticed and being seen…

Recently, I was placed in a difficult situation with a co-worker. It is often very intimidating to begin a new position as a nurse in a new healthcare organization. Unfortunately, clichés are often formed by employees. Last December I was in new employee orientation. My first day I arrived early in order to be prepared and to meet the nurse that would be training me on the unit. It was much unexpected that the nurse walked in two minutes before her shift started and she was unaware that she was…