Nurse Patient Ratios
Nursing and nurses, the paragon and paramount of healthcare, the helping hand and the leading constant through ailment and illness, the men and women who care for those in need, and yet we push them to their limits and ask everything of them for the impossible. The amount of patients a nurse receives needs to be reduced to better improve level of care and safety for a patient. The need and or necessity for such action come from the very stressful environment that is nursing. Nurses become overworked and pushed to their limits while the very best is demanded of them with very little to no support given. This should happen because healthcare should be held to the highest of standards in which humanity should be provided with the best level
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The justification for the research and article of Lang, Thomas’s “Nurse-Patient Ratios: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Nurse Staffing on Patient, Nurse Employee, and Hospital Outcomes” stems from the problem that the nursing workloads and patient “acuity” (the measurement of the intensity of nursing care required by a patient) is too high to provide a concise level of patient care (Lang 326). Continued reasoning for decreased nurse to patient ratios is that within the past 25 years an effort by hospitals to cut cost has led to the decline of patient care, leading to adverse complication for the patient like increased patient stay, mortality, and increased hospital acquired infections (Lang …show more content…
The problem defined was that the workload for each nurse was at an unbearable level in which they could not care for their patients and consider it a safe environment with enough resources to do the job. The research preformed entailed the relationship between staffing levels and mortality rate, specifically looking at studies and evidence based from the US and England. Finding showing how ineffective nursing staff ratios lead to increased mortality rate and that the situation within the NHS was worse off than the US, nurse to patient ratio “levels as low as one RN to nearly 15 patients.”(Patterson 22). Nursing staff levels so out of touch and quality of care spread so thin that the increased mortality and patient outcomes could have been prevented by simply increasing nursing support. Each representation of the study of research, found that “if all 30 NHS trusts studied had had the nurse-to-patient ratio of around 1:7 (the best found in the study) around 246 fewer deaths would have been seen” (Patterson 22). The problems defined as a nursing staff shortage leads to the conclusion and link that nursing unit staffing is too low to provide for the care needed. (Marco’s note: add evidence in
The justification for the research and article of Lang, Thomas’s “Nurse-Patient Ratios: A Systematic Review on the Effects of Nurse Staffing on Patient, Nurse Employee, and Hospital Outcomes” stems from the problem that the nursing workloads and patient “acuity” (the measurement of the intensity of nursing care required by a patient) is too high to provide a concise level of patient care (Lang 326). Continued reasoning for decreased nurse to patient ratios is that within the past 25 years an effort by hospitals to cut cost has led to the decline of patient care, leading to adverse complication for the patient like increased patient stay, mortality, and increased hospital acquired infections (Lang …show more content…
The problem defined was that the workload for each nurse was at an unbearable level in which they could not care for their patients and consider it a safe environment with enough resources to do the job. The research preformed entailed the relationship between staffing levels and mortality rate, specifically looking at studies and evidence based from the US and England. Finding showing how ineffective nursing staff ratios lead to increased mortality rate and that the situation within the NHS was worse off than the US, nurse to patient ratio “levels as low as one RN to nearly 15 patients.”(Patterson 22). Nursing staff levels so out of touch and quality of care spread so thin that the increased mortality and patient outcomes could have been prevented by simply increasing nursing support. Each representation of the study of research, found that “if all 30 NHS trusts studied had had the nurse-to-patient ratio of around 1:7 (the best found in the study) around 246 fewer deaths would have been seen” (Patterson 22). The problems defined as a nursing staff shortage leads to the conclusion and link that nursing unit staffing is too low to provide for the care needed. (Marco’s note: add evidence in