Factors Causing Nurses Leaving Clinical Practice In Acute Care
Factors Causing Nurses to Leave Clinical Practice and Participant Protection.
Americans strives to achieve success through long work hours and sacrifices that create lifestyles filled with strain to the person physical and psychological states. (Purdy, 2010). Nurses are leaving clinical practice due to fatigue, long understaffed work hours, unsupportive colleagues and work environments, and employers placing nurses and patients at risk (MacKusick, & Minick, 2010, Baker & Nussbaum, 2011). Decreases in motor and cognitive functions in a fatigued nurse could result in impaired judgement, impaired ability to recognize and respond to clinical changes, inadequate record keeping, poor communication, and medication administration errors which all …show more content…
A qualitative, phenomenological research design will be used in this study to investigate and to study individuals’ experiences with a particular phenomenon because it offers ways of understanding that are not offered by other research methodologies. This method permits the examination of conscious experience as experienced from the subjective point of view. The following guiding question will be investigated using a phenomenological method: What causes nurses to leave clinical practice in acute care settings? What is the experience of the nurses leaving clinical practice in acute care settings? To date there has been one qualitative study conducted in the United States on the reasons why nurses leave clinical practice in the acute care …show more content…
However, health care workers may have a better understanding of why they chose to leave the acute care clinical setting. Although there is a chance of psychological or emotional risks occurring while answering the interview questions, the participants may enjoy discussing their experiences and find it therapeutic. Participants may, however, withdrawal from the study at any point in time they choose and for any reasons they see fit. The researcher may withdraw subjects if they consistently verbalize feeling uncomfortable, and if they show signs of anxiety, embarrassment, or illness.
Conclusion
The results of this research study may add to the current body of knowledge about the reasons why registered nurses are leaving clinical practice in the acute care setting. With this data education and workplace programs may provide improved resources and support to registered nurses in need. This study will gather information surrounding the reasons why registered nurses leave acute care
Americans strives to achieve success through long work hours and sacrifices that create lifestyles filled with strain to the person physical and psychological states. (Purdy, 2010). Nurses are leaving clinical practice due to fatigue, long understaffed work hours, unsupportive colleagues and work environments, and employers placing nurses and patients at risk (MacKusick, & Minick, 2010, Baker & Nussbaum, 2011). Decreases in motor and cognitive functions in a fatigued nurse could result in impaired judgement, impaired ability to recognize and respond to clinical changes, inadequate record keeping, poor communication, and medication administration errors which all …show more content…
A qualitative, phenomenological research design will be used in this study to investigate and to study individuals’ experiences with a particular phenomenon because it offers ways of understanding that are not offered by other research methodologies. This method permits the examination of conscious experience as experienced from the subjective point of view. The following guiding question will be investigated using a phenomenological method: What causes nurses to leave clinical practice in acute care settings? What is the experience of the nurses leaving clinical practice in acute care settings? To date there has been one qualitative study conducted in the United States on the reasons why nurses leave clinical practice in the acute care …show more content…
However, health care workers may have a better understanding of why they chose to leave the acute care clinical setting. Although there is a chance of psychological or emotional risks occurring while answering the interview questions, the participants may enjoy discussing their experiences and find it therapeutic. Participants may, however, withdrawal from the study at any point in time they choose and for any reasons they see fit. The researcher may withdraw subjects if they consistently verbalize feeling uncomfortable, and if they show signs of anxiety, embarrassment, or illness.
Conclusion
The results of this research study may add to the current body of knowledge about the reasons why registered nurses are leaving clinical practice in the acute care setting. With this data education and workplace programs may provide improved resources and support to registered nurses in need. This study will gather information surrounding the reasons why registered nurses leave acute care