They also need to research how much increasing the staffing levels will increase costs, and where funding will come from to cover those costs. There is another aspect of the argument that must be addressed, as well. There is a nursing shortage, and Continue Reading...
Nurse Patient Ratios and Quality of Care This study reviews the broad level of issues that surround the nurse/patient ratio: a critical shortage of trained and experienced nurses; increased political and fiscal demands from all sectors of society; r Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratios. This is a legislator information sheet on nurse-patient ratios (as adapted from Aikan et al. 2010) for a busy legislator who will only have time to read bullet points: The ratio of nurse patient is lower in California than in Continue Reading...
Public Policy Annotated BibliographyOne potential public policy issue that may be of interest to me is the issue of mandatory staffing ratios for hospitals so as to ensure that adequate quality care is available to patients. Fox and Abrahamson (2009) Continue Reading...
Dialysis organizations would be another opponent to the change due to the cost. Raising the costs of treatment might be necessary to hire new nurses. Dialysis clinics, because of their small size, often have fewer resources than large hospitals and Continue Reading...
Nurse-Patient Ratio on Care Quality Nurse Patient Ratio The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality The Impact of Nurse to Patient Ratio on Healthcare Quality It would be hard to understate the importance of a high nurse to patien Continue Reading...
Staffing in Nursing Staffing and Other Nursing Issues The main topic of this paper is staffing related to the field of nursing, here it is very important to realize a correct balance between the demand of nurses and available nurses at any medical Continue Reading...
This study will look for a hospital which has a wide variation in terms of educational attainment of its nurses. The nursing population of this chosen hospital will then become the participants of this study. Only the currently-employed; full-time n Continue Reading...
Many advocates of the move feel that lower patient to nurse ratio would lead to additional savings because it would reduce nurse turnover rate, lawsuits, complications and length of stay. Nursing unions in the state of California have asked for a PT Continue Reading...
Nurse Staffing Shortage Issue Nursing Staffing Shortage One of the greatest challenges to the continued development of a high quality health care delivery system is the continued and frequently increasing shortage of qualified nurses active in the Continue Reading...
739, p=0.009, e?=0.727). This study clearly highlighted that sleep shortage and work fatigue poses a threat to patient safety and that nurse self-care is warranted.[Dorrian et.al, (2006)] Nurse Support Services An earlier Australian study by Moore Continue Reading...
" (Allen 2008) This means that nursing educators are also a key stakeholder. Other stakeholders include healthcare facility administrators, corporate trustees and public office holders, who will often have entangled or competing interests relating t Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage: Its Effect on Patient Outcome In today's environment of rising costs in the health care industry, one of the first casualties in many hospitals is the level of RN staffing. In fact, across the country, hospital RNs are increasingly Continue Reading...
nursing shortage in Ontario has the potential to have a catastrophic impact both on the health of patients and the health of nurses. Nurses as a whole are committed to providing excellent care and upholding the standards of their profession. However Continue Reading...
The shortage of nursing staff remains a major challenge in the U.S. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) (2014), the shortage is expected to be even greater in the next one decade or so. The shortage has been fuelled by Continue Reading...
Inadequate Staffing in Nursing Explain the nursing/patient care concern, problems, issues observed at the senior level clinical practice During the past decade, there certainly has been a rapid decline in quality patient care in the healthcare indu Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Risk Management Plan Nursing staff scarcity constitutes a widespread issue across several segments of the healthcare sector. It is often a challenge to find an adequate number of qualified nursing professionals for meeting staffing Continue Reading...
Nursing: Theory and Nursing Practice Issues Theory and Nursing Practice Issues: Nursing The modern-day staff nurse faces a variety of challenges in the work environment. These include inadequate staffing, the authority gradient, and issues related Continue Reading...
Leadership and Management In the medical field, the recent topic of debate relates to Nurse Staffing Ratios where many argue that governments need to intervene in setting minimum staffing laws. Currently, the only state that has enacted a law is Ca Continue Reading...
Nursing Shortage Review On Nurses Shortage The supply of professional nurses relative to the increase in demand for their services has been on a general decline over the years. As a career choice, nursing has been facing perennial shortage of profe Continue Reading...
Nursing profession is among the oldest in history. Currently, there is much debate that surrounds the profession because of the need for more trained nurses. In recent years the nursing shortage has become a major problem for the medical profession a Continue Reading...
The study found that increasing the proportion of nurses who were more highly educated by ten percent lowered the thirty-day mortality rate of patients by five percent. Conversely, if the workload on these nurses was then increased by one patient th Continue Reading...
Nursing Workforce Issues and Concerns The article, "Nursing Workforce Issues and Trends Affecting Emergency Departments" by Robinson and colleagues (2004) looks at the range of contemporary issues which directly impact the quality of care which is r Continue Reading...
Clinical narratives are used for the articulation and sharing of knowledge and experience which has been acquired over time and through experiential learning and is a way of enabling nurses to "tap into the thought processes and best practices of ex Continue Reading...
Nursing Concept Theoretical Background One of the complexities of 21st century medicine is the evolution of nursing care theories in combination with a changing need and expectation of the stakeholder population. Nurses must be advocates and commun Continue Reading...
The Shared Governance arrangement: offers an apparatus for registered nurses to show guidance in the development of practice decisions authorizes all nursing staff to add to work redesign advances the quality of patient and family outcomes. In the Continue Reading...
Perceptual and attitudinal changes are needed to motivate readiness to learn. Self-directed education is key to adult learning and especially to continuing education in the health professions (McClaran et. al, 1999, p. 184). Studies show that nurse Continue Reading...
Literature Assessment: Nurse-Patient RatiosIntroductionThe issue of mandatory staffing ratios for hospitals to ensure that adequate quality care is available to patients. Fox and Abrahamson (2009) note that nursing care arguably falls into the realm Continue Reading...
Scarce Resources Nursing shortage basically means the demand for nursing professionals exceeds the professional nurses, this can be in a given healthcare facility, nationally or globally. This can be measured through the number of job openings deman Continue Reading...
Effects of Short-Staffed Nursing in Emergency Rooms Effects of Short-Staffed Nursing in Emergency RoomsIntroductionThe emergency departments efficiency is a critical component of delivering quality and safe care within the health sector. The utilizat Continue Reading...
The decade-old system that specifies least standards for staffing in nursing homes need to be restructured, the report says. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must call for nursing homes to have at least one RN within the facility dur Continue Reading...
Nursing Staff Levels Affect Patient Mortality Managing unnecessary variability in patient demand to reduce nursing stress and improve patient safety. Litvak, E., Buerhaus, P.I., Davidoff, F., Long, M.C., McManus, M.L. & Berwick, D.M. Date of Continue Reading...
.....clinician responses to alarms? For example: Physical barriers, physical layout of the unit, RN-pt ratio. The observed influences include the type of alarm, such as whether it was a bed or bathroom alarm versus a technology alarm coming from som Continue Reading...
Leadership for Advanced Practice Nursing 1 Staffing is not the main issue in elevating or containing costs: the main issue is retention. High turnover rates in nursing can drive costs up, but proper staffing with an appropriate ratio of nurses to pat Continue Reading...
Cross-Sectional Study to Determine Factors in the Educational Advancement of the Licensed Practical Nurse to the Registered Nurse in the State of North Carolina According to the Harvard Nursing Research Institute, United States nursing school enrol Continue Reading...
1997, the average pass rate for first time test takers on the NCLEX-RN was 93%. Since 1997, the national average pass rate on the NCLEX-RN has declined to 83.8% (National Organization for Associate Degree Nursing, 2002). The pass rate for the state Continue Reading...
Picot Statement P: Nurses and Nursing. Nursing leadership and patient outcome Review of studies and literature that examine the association and relationship between nursing leadership practices and patient outcomes. O: Evidence suggests relations Continue Reading...
Finkielman et al. (2003) In a study conduction by the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at the Haukeland University Hospital in Norway which was a follow-up of after intensive care with objectives of research of "health problems, quality Continue Reading...
Healthcare Practices in Nursing Today Over the last 50 years, health care systems all over the world have experienced rapid and significant changes. Some of these changes have been the result of innovative developments in medical science and techno Continue Reading...
Evidence Based Practice University of Illinois Evidence Based Medicine Resources: Lessons Learned From the search resources I learned that in evidence based medicine, patient values comprising of their unique concerns, preferences, and expectations i Continue Reading...
