Nursing Practice Executive Summary
Congress on Nursing Practice and Economics. (n.d). Assuring patient safety: The employers’ role in promoting healthy nursing work hours for registered nurses in all roles and settings. ANA. Retrieved June 07, 2016, from http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/Policy-Advocacy/Positions-and-Resolutions/ANAPositionStatements/Archives/AssuringPatientSafety.pdf.
• Audience:employers of registered nurses
• Context:the position of American Nurses Association in regards to nurses and patients’ safety
• Purpose: encouraging employers of nurses to develop specific policies and regulations that will promote healthy work hours of nurses.
The authors of the article argue that all employers of registered nurses must pay attention to nurses’ fatigue …show more content…
(2013). Burnout in relation to specific contributing factors and health outcomes among nurses: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10(2013), 2214-2240.
• Audience: health care professionals and policymakers
• Context: burnouts and satisfaction resulting from different working environments
• Purpose: to identify a research that has examined the links between burnouts, satisfaction, stressful working environment, and nurses’ poor health.
The argument of this review is that nurses experience burnouts more often in comparison with other health care professionals, but there is not enough evidence concerning the relationships between such factors as stressful working environments and other work-related aspects causing nurses’ poor health.
After analyzing different sources related to this topic, the authors concluded that further research was needed to acquire a better understanding of relations between burnout, work-related stress, job satisfaction, and nurses’ health. In addition, this review demonstrated contradictory evidence concerning job satisfaction. This review highlights important researches that have been conducted to better understand the causes of nurses’ burnouts and other work-related …show more content…
• Purpose: encouraging policymakers and nursing leaders to develop better working environment for nurses and to establish shorter shifts.
Stimpfel, Sloane, and Aiken(2012) discuss two negative outcomes of nurses’ long shifts. First, they argue that shifts exceeding 12 hours result in nurses’ burnouts and poor health. Second, they find positive relationship between nurses’ long shifts and patients’ dissatisfaction.
Survey data gathered in 4 states proved that nurses working long shifts were more likely to suffer from burnouts and provide patients with poorer care than their colleagues working shorter shifts. Like the article discussing ANA’s position, this source also gives much information about impropriety of nurses’ long shifts. Department of Government Affairs. (n.d.). ANA on Mandatory Overtime. ANA.Retrieved June 07, 2016, fromhttp://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/NurseStaffing/OvertimeIssues/Overtime.pdf.
• Audience: nursing leaders and policymakers
• Context: supporting the Safe Nursing and Patient Care
• Audience:employers of registered nurses
• Context:the position of American Nurses Association in regards to nurses and patients’ safety
• Purpose: encouraging employers of nurses to develop specific policies and regulations that will promote healthy work hours of nurses.
The authors of the article argue that all employers of registered nurses must pay attention to nurses’ fatigue …show more content…
(2013). Burnout in relation to specific contributing factors and health outcomes among nurses: A systematic review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 10(2013), 2214-2240.
• Audience: health care professionals and policymakers
• Context: burnouts and satisfaction resulting from different working environments
• Purpose: to identify a research that has examined the links between burnouts, satisfaction, stressful working environment, and nurses’ poor health.
The argument of this review is that nurses experience burnouts more often in comparison with other health care professionals, but there is not enough evidence concerning the relationships between such factors as stressful working environments and other work-related aspects causing nurses’ poor health.
After analyzing different sources related to this topic, the authors concluded that further research was needed to acquire a better understanding of relations between burnout, work-related stress, job satisfaction, and nurses’ health. In addition, this review demonstrated contradictory evidence concerning job satisfaction. This review highlights important researches that have been conducted to better understand the causes of nurses’ burnouts and other work-related …show more content…
• Purpose: encouraging policymakers and nursing leaders to develop better working environment for nurses and to establish shorter shifts.
Stimpfel, Sloane, and Aiken(2012) discuss two negative outcomes of nurses’ long shifts. First, they argue that shifts exceeding 12 hours result in nurses’ burnouts and poor health. Second, they find positive relationship between nurses’ long shifts and patients’ dissatisfaction.
Survey data gathered in 4 states proved that nurses working long shifts were more likely to suffer from burnouts and provide patients with poorer care than their colleagues working shorter shifts. Like the article discussing ANA’s position, this source also gives much information about impropriety of nurses’ long shifts. Department of Government Affairs. (n.d.). ANA on Mandatory Overtime. ANA.Retrieved June 07, 2016, fromhttp://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ThePracticeofProfessionalNursing/NurseStaffing/OvertimeIssues/Overtime.pdf.
• Audience: nursing leaders and policymakers
• Context: supporting the Safe Nursing and Patient Care