Nurse Workload Failure

Unfortunately, nurses are sometimes understaffed bad have a heavy workload, which can lead to care and treatment that falls below the standard of care. Working understaffed with a heavy workload makes nurses overwhelmed and stressed out. They are trying to run around and make sure everyone has their medication among other things they need to do, this is how mistakes are made. Hospitals are replacing registered nurses with cheaper less trained individuals to provide care. A Journal of American Medical Association article concluded that clients in hospitals where nurses have heavier workload had a 31% higher risk of dying. An analysis of 1,709 serious errors reported to the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in the last five years involved nurses being understaffed.
Failure to follow standards of care typlically allege that you failed to follow certain procedures or protocols. Which includes failure of following proper fall and safety protocols established by the health care facility, giving medications in a timely and reasonable way, inserting tubing and other