Difficult situations were faced in my facility three months ago where staffing shortage force nurses for weeks work on the floor in technician position with increased patient ratios per nurse and left patient care undone. Some technicians approach vacation time other staff members decide canceled they are working days early in the morning or fail to report‚ placing facility and staff nurses in hard situations. It created stressful environment and conflict among colleagues. We start noted that during
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The Effects of Nurse Staffing on Patient Safety Evidence and Methodology • Our goal is clearly defined---- To assess whether nurse staffing effects patient safety in the form of inpatient hospital mortality and patient safety • Our studies are observational and taken from random samples adjusted for risk and hospital characteristics----Data was obtained from nurse surveys and risk-adjusted 30-day inpatient mortality and failure to rescue. Pt discharge data was obtained from the state agencies.
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I’ve encountered an ethical dilemma situation in my recent capstone clinical. My clinical preceptor and I caught in the concepts of the principles of autonomy‚ veracity‚ and nonmalifecence. This occurred when we provided nursing service to a 30-years-old male patient who was taken to the ED as a post-code patient. The EMS team arrived in the scene and initiated CPR and defibrillated a client (on the floor of his room). The client ended up in the ICU with a diagnosis of hypoxic- anoxic injury (HAI)
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Nurse Staffing Ratios Grand Canyon University Roles and Responsibilities in Leadership NRS-451V April 26‚ 2015 Nurse Staffing Ratios There have been series of changes in the way healthcare professionals carry out their clinical practices in recent years. Some of these changes are because evidenced-based practices based on scientific research is now being used‚ in clinical practices. These innovations have affected both the patient and the nurse who provides the care. According to Welton‚ (2007)
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Literature Adequate nurse staffing for patient care has been a major difficulty in the health care system . Patients’ acuity continues to grow at a fast rate while hospitals continue to struggle with the adequate number for nurse-to-patient ratio‚ leaving nurses in a very difficult situation while trying to provide the best care possible to their patients. The low nurse-to-patients ratio can be remedied when public and private hospitals realize the negative impact on the outcome of care. This paper
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The main problem is that nurse staffing ration is affecting patient’s safety. Since there is no Nurse Technicians and not enough nurses‚ there is so much to do and not enough resources to help me. One of my patients is complaining of severe abdominal pain and the physician is angry with me because I wasn’t able to bring the equipment to her. One of the actions I would do speak to the physician and explain to her that charge nurse is currently taking care of a serious patient. In addition‚ I will let
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medical- ethical dilemma through my clinical assignment in pediatrics. My patient was a 3 month old female who was born dead. Apparently the mother suffered Placenta Abruptio‚ it is unknown how long the fetus suffered with hypoxia before birth. Nurses claim this infant was born dead. CPR was performed for more than 15 minutes before the heart started. Needless to say the baby was then placed on life support. A determination was made that the infant is brain dead. The major dilemma is that the
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It is demanded of nurses to show commitments to persons with health-care needs and individuals receiving care. However‚ nurses are expected to be professional‚ transparent‚ therapeutic and ethical with their clients. Similarly‚ nurses are expected to work ethically and working through ethical challenges that arise in their practice with individuals‚ clients and within public health systems (Canada Nurses Association‚ 2008). The dilemma deals with both ethical and legal issues‚ it involves a professional
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Addressing end-of-life measures is a common ethical issue that nurses experience on a daily basis‚ especially nurses who work in the critical care setting. Ethical concerns dealing with this particular type of care normally revolves around the interest of patients‚ commonly known as autonomy or self-determination. The Code of Ethics defines autonomy and self-determination as the philosophical basis for informed consent in healthcare giving the patient the right to determine what healthcare measures
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Abstract Nurse staffing has always been an issue in the hospital setting. Different units with different patient acuities are staffed accordingly usually based on the patient census. While nurses who are in direct contact care with patients feel that a decreased patient load will lead to greater benefit for the patient‚ others who are usually in managerial positions are not persuaded that such a correlation exists. As of this time‚ no such research has been done with an intentional change in staffing
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