and poor patient care—including higher rates of mortality and morbidity. Nursing shortages have affected almost every region of the world, and may become worse unless concerted efforts are made to remedy the problem.
Introduction
Even the most advanced healthcare systems in the world are short on nursing staff. As a result, existing nurses are working longer hours under high duress, and are more prone to making errors or experiencing workplace violence and abuse. Patients are dying from preventable causes or becoming ill due to inefficient nursing care. If nothing is done soon to mitigate the nursing shortage, the entire globe… Continue Reading...
Previous studies have indicated that in other specialties, nurse residency programs have been largely successful in seeking to stem nursing shortages. However, very few studies have attempted to evaluate as well as assess the effectiveness and success rate of nurse residency programs in relation to operating room nurses. It is important to note that there is a looming crisis in the horizon in relation to the shortage of operating room nurses (Brown, Belgard, Washington, and Grueso, 2017). The effects this continued shortage could have on perioperative nursing could be dire. Towards this end, the relevance of assessing the relevance of nurse residency programs in seeking to address this concern… Continue Reading...
units making the program to be highly financially rewarding. Nevertheless, the hospital has faced challenges in the last three decades because the unit has experienced the nursing shortages, moreover, the burn care program also suffered the staffing problems. The issues made Burn Care Unit to implement the Baylor Plan designed for nurses 12-hour shift every weekend, and weekdays. Nurses who worked for 24 hours get paid for 36 hours with full benefits based on overtime policy. Thus, nurses who worked on weekends are prohibited from working on weekdays. During the weekdays, nurses are paid with full-time benefits based on overtime policy. Moreover, nurses who assigned the work weekdays for 5 continuous days were off for next… Continue Reading...
