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Thank you, Rhonda, for sharing this information. I support the way you have decided to improve your practice by “Setting examples of continuing to comfort the afflicted.” Nursing is all about caring. Since the time of Florence Nightingale, the nursing goal is to provide safe and comfortable care to the patient. This will promote health and wellbeing (Selanders & Crane, 2012). Mr. Rory Rochelle, Director of Nursing and Allied Health Education Nursing says that caring, altruism and holism are important qualities to have as a nurse (Qualities in Nursing, n.d.). The primary role of a nurse is to provide care (The Essentials of baccalaureate education for professional nursing practice, 2008). Theories help nurses to organize care and also to direct…
Nurses follow a mission when providing care to patients who need support and healing. Many times over, the patients outnumber the nurses in many communities and institutions. When these occurrences happen, it puts stress on the nurses, their nursing care, and on the leaders and managers. "Nursing shortages and health care reform have had a strong impact on the creation of current and evolving types of patient care delivery models” (Huber, 2010). In rearranging patient care, adding health care professionals with multiple skills is likely to help the nurse provide better patient care. The new arrangement created an undesirable effect with nurses and on the care of patients. “Nurse staffing intensity, which is expressed as the ratio of RNs to patient census in hospitals, has been associated with lower mortality in hospitals” (Huber, 2010). With an increase in the nurse to patient ratio, the way nurses care for patients can be compromised with undesirable patient results.…
So how does a nurse become burnt out? What factors are responsible for nurses losing their passion to provide high quality patient care? What leads them into a downward spiral where they "become automated, apathetic, and are working mindlessly rather than mindfully" (Todaro-Franceschi 2013). It starts with nurses being overworked due to shortage of nurses. In some cases, it’s the environment in which the nurse works. Whether it’s a tyrant of a supervisor or insufficient supplies, these conditions can put unwanted stress on a nurse and cause them to.…
It is a widely known fact that the United States is facing a critical shortage of Registered Nurses (RN’s), and that over the next several years the need for nurses is going to increase significantly due to the ageing baby boomer generation. It is expected that by 2020 the United States will face a shortage of over one million nurses (Buerhaus, Auerback, & Staiger, 2009) and this fact has drawn a great deal of public attention; however, there is also a growing shortage of nurse educators which must be addressed. This paper will discuss the article “The Nursing Shortage Continues as Faculty Shortage Grows,” how the faculty shortage will effect patient care, and propose possible solutions to the shortage.…
Vaatio-Rajalin, H., & Leino-Kilpi, H. (2011). Nurses as patient advocates in oncology care. Journal of Oncology Nursing, 15(5), 526-532. doi:10.1188/11.CJON.526-532…
Cowen and Moorhead (2006) define nursing shortage as states that do not meet greater than 97% of their demand for nurses, and show that in 2005, 33 states were experiencing a nursing shortage and by 2020, 44 states will be experiencing this same shortage. We can ask ourselves daily there is a shortage, but all we have to do is look at the workplace and see why this shortage exists. Nurses are tired. Tired of having to care for more patients with less resources, tired of having to work extra because there are not enough nurses to fill the positions and tired of having to work in atmospheres where it is all about the money, not the patients and their families (Mee & Robinson, 2003). This tired feeling leads to negative attitudes from nurses, which shows as they interact with patients, colleagues, and nursing students.…
Limitations of this study included cost, extraneous variables, nurses having personal issues, attrition rates and lack of participation due to method of return. As more data are collected, the issue of nurse to nurse variation and non-response biases can be addressed empirically. Also nurses rushing through questionnaire instead of carefully reading each question and thinking of the answer choices before choosing one. A nurse’s stress is not limited to their job but can be related to personal issues in their home or with their…
Nurses are the largest group of health care professionals providing direct care in hospitals. However, they suffer from job burnout…
The nursing shortage impacts the world in a prodigious way. The nursing shortage has an adverse impact on patient care, as well as on nurses. The causes of the nursing shortage are multi-faceted and there is no single measure that influences the declining issues. The most concerning issue of the nursing shortage is the decline in patient care, and positive outcome (Buchan, 2010). The research question in this study is the following: How does the nursing shortage affect quality of patient care, work stress and nurse job satisfaction? It is a well-known fact that the nursing shortage increases work stress, by increasing workload and in return, this effects nursing care in a tremendous way.…
Mercy Gilbert Medical Center embraces some concepts that make them a healing hospital. The most important concept is that top level administrators and managers have to develop a strong sense of culture of compassionate care. This is important because health care is one of the most demanding fields of work. Nurse burnout is a common phenomenon, and if the nurse does not even want to come to work then how can they provide the best level of care for their patients. That is why this first concept is the most important. When you provide a positive and compassionate environment it not only helps healthcare workers, but also the patients. A study on creating a healing environment found that the nurse manager’s responsibility is to understand how different environmental designs can reduce patient and staff anxiety and stress (Chapman 1990.) The author also points out the importance of “[Doing] everything you can think of to take better care of your employees so that your employees in turn will take better care of patients” The administrators and managers also remind the workers of their roots or why they went into the field of healthcare in the first place. When the workers enjoy going to work, and helping their patients to the best of their abilities day after day, then you…
In this essay I will be discussing the difference in nursing practice regarding manual handling and how it has evolved over the years. Extensive amounts of thought, new equipment and procedures have gone into the present manual handling practices. Many injuries have occurred over the years due to lifting, twisting and bending the wrong way. There are constant improvements being made to assist workers with manual handling and avoid further injuries.…
In the United States, Registered Nurses (R.N.) make up the largest recorded working population of the health care profession, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 2.7 percent of the workforce comprises of nurses compared to 3.6 percent in the last 6 years (A.A.C.N., 2013). This decrease is attributed to the current shortage and high turnover of nurses. This current trend in the nursing profession has a great effect on the provision of health care because it has reduced the quality of care of patients, increased accidents amongst patients, absenteeism rates and staffing among others.…