Nurse Staffing In Health Care
There is a diverse range of aspects related to nursing staffing in health care organizations. Staffing levels in hospitals are likely to have a bearing on the assurance in the delivery of safe and reliable care. However, nursing staffing challenges have remained perennial prompting prolonged attention on the allocation of nurse staffing resources to facilitate patient safety (Weston et al., 2012). Nevertheless, focus on staffing levels has particularly increased with the prevailing shortage of nurses (Rochefort, et al., 2015). Furthermore, there have been changes in the manner nursing is approached. Traditionally, it would be assumed that well-trained practitioners were not prone to errors. Such was consistent with the traditional tendency
of equating error with incompetence and recommending punishments to motivate individual to heighten carefulness (Emanuel, et al., 2015). However, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2000) sparked attention toward patient safety through its To Err is Human report that acknowledged that it is natural for human to make errors. With these in mind, it has become necessary to establish the relationship that nursing staffing levels have with patient outcomes to be able to establish the staffing levels that would facilitate optimum patient safety.
of equating error with incompetence and recommending punishments to motivate individual to heighten carefulness (Emanuel, et al., 2015). However, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (2000) sparked attention toward patient safety through its To Err is Human report that acknowledged that it is natural for human to make errors. With these in mind, it has become necessary to establish the relationship that nursing staffing levels have with patient outcomes to be able to establish the staffing levels that would facilitate optimum patient safety.