C. Difficult people are everywhere and dealing if them is an everyday life. d. Some are the patients in the waiting area; tired of waiting these can be difficult. e. Others can be the family, worried about their family members health which can be f. very stressful for them which can cause uncomfortable confrontation between them g. And other staff members. D. What can us as health care providers due to handle these difficult people and situations that can occur? h. We as providers can continuously educate and inform ourselves of new ideas.
Solutions for Nursing Personnel Shortages Executive Summary Senior Human Resource Management should adopt some changes in order to combat the current growing nursing/healthcare personnel shortage. Employees simply want to be heard and sympathized with. Nowadays the nursing shortage has caused many problems in the healthcare industry. First and foremost, the quality of care being provided to patients is declining due to the fact that there are not as many nurses to care for the patient appropriately. As a matter of fact, the workload being dumped on the employees is steadily increasing.
It is important to analyze the different dynamics to these potential problems. Within this analyzes, I would look at the opportunities and constraints of entering data into the system. Are the constraints that the hospital staff have due to the with number of patients being seen and the time to enter the data? Analyzing the fact that there is an opportunity cost situation where possible hospital staff have a certain amount of time with each patient, and now that there has been even more work to be completed for this patient they get caught entering data and not spending the time needed with the patient. Hospital staff may not understand what opportunities that the data could bring to the hospital staff and patients?
This is one department where teamwork is essential and a lack of leadership amongst co-workers can lead to ineffective care (36). It is important to have communication and training because patient’s conditions are more serious and can change quickly. Because the conditions of a patient are more serious, any health care provider on that unit needs to know who to call or what therapies to use/change to improve a patient’s condition. 2) Medical Teams in the Emergency Department: Providers in this department include Nurses, Respiratory therapists, and physicians. Physician assistants, X-ray technicians and lab technicians may also be called to the department.
PICOT Question Hannah Davis Florida Atlantic University February 1, 2015 PICOT QUESTION Background. The problem identified in my nursing situation was a concern of safety for patients in the emergency department who are admitted under the Baker Act. By law, the emergency department is required to hold these clients until medically cleared by a physician. However, this waiting time is often longer than can be expected and due to the laws of the Baker Act, the patient is held against their will until evaluated by a psychiatrist. This course of treatment can be upsetting to the patients and often results in numerous elopement attempts.
In order to do that, the nurse must assess the competencies of her delegates. Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of your delegates is important, but the nurse must also know what other resources are available to help those delegates with weaknesses grow and be able to be more effective within the team. The second step is the planning phase. In this phase it is important to determine what outcomes are the most important to obtain. The focus should be on how the outcomes will contribute to the patient and
Knowing how to communicate is important because there will be times that you have to deal with situations like when a patient calls or comes in to the office and they are upset and taking their anger out on you. Having the skills to communicate with an angry patient can help calm them down and so you can try to help the patient with their situation to the best of your skills, knowledge and abilities and if you cannot, always try to find the person who can. The reason planning activities within the medical office are important for a Medical Administrative Assistant is because the position of Medical Administrative Assistant is to perform errands which are interrelated to the healthcare industry and general administrative duties. These errands may include answering phones, greeting patients and visitors, ordering supplies, sorting mail, bookkeeping, and creating invoices. The other errands, that may also entail specialized knowledge, include updating and maintaining patient medical records, processing insurance forms, scheduling patient appointments and coordinating lab services.
Right to Withdraw Care in End of Life Situations Name here School name Right to Withdraw Care in End of Life Situations There are many decisions that have to be made concerning the right to withdraw care at the end of life. These issues are faced by doctors, nurses, patients and family members concerned about the decision to withdraw care. Many of these decisions regarding care raise anxiety among the healthcare team, family members and even the patient. The patient must be able to make decisions about their care. The purpose of this paper is to discuss that as a patient’s life deteriorates care is no longer able to improve a patient’s quality of life but their projected outcome is thought to be a continued degeneration.
The fatigued nurse becomes overwhelmed and can easily make mistakes such as medication errors or performing procedures on the wrong patient. They also begin to lose compassion for their patient and become more task oriented. Often times it gets to a point where they are just showing up for work and lose sight of their original desire to help an ill patient get better or make a difference in their patients day. We go into nursing with the intention to help people who need it and share with patients our nurturing personalities but that sometimes gets lost in the tangled web of stressful situations, long work weeks, long shifts, increasing patient-to-nurse ratios, constantly changing field, and not enough education on the support systems in place or methods for coping. One thing I’ve noticed to be very common with nurses is remembering to take care of themselves.
Healthcare organizations are finding it difficult to provide quality healthcare services in a timely manner due to the nursing staff shortages. Healthcare facilities are attempting to develop solutions to solve this shortage problem, but the current solutions are resulting in short term negative impacts. This warrants the need to continue to look for innovative ways to offset the additional costs as well as the reduction in quality that is being felt. NURSING STAFF SHORTAGES Nursing Staff Shortages: Why is There a Problem and What Can be Done to Solve It? A large problem in today’s healthcare environment is a shortage of nurses to fill positions.