Nurse Workload Analysis

Health care has face multiple issues over the years. One of the most important and urgent issue, is the amount of workload that health care workers are faced with each day. Health care workers most of the time care for more hospitalized patients than they can handle and they are in charge of additional amount of paperwork. Those factors not only can compromise the patient safety, but also it can affect the workers stress level and mental health. As a future Medical student, personally this issue it is really important and it needs to be solved urgently for the safety of patients and for the future of health care workers. The amount of workload can prevent doctors and nurses from, fully discussing treatment options with patients and miss vital signs of illness that could affect the chances of survival. Other factors is that health care
For this reason hospital administrators need to ensure that each healthcare facility is provided with a sufficient amount of staff, an organized schedule, and an electronic system to reduce the workload of healthcare workers and gives patients the best possible care.
The shortage of staff, especially of nurses and physicians has a negative impact on workload and patient safety. Not having enough health care workers can make doctors to not fully evaluate the patient and order unnecessary test, because they did not have enough time to examine the patient's’ case. In the article “U.S HealthCare Worker Shortage Escalating: Sterling Warns Medical Practitioners to Rapidly Reverse Low Employee Retention.” The author emphasize that the U.S healthcare workers shortage crisis is expected to intensify as baby boomers join the ranks of senior citizens and 27 million Obamacare insured Americans place a demand on an already overburdened healthcare system. Additionally, as older healthcare employees retire, there will be fewer qualified staff to replaced them. It is important to