This has caused doctors to shift their patients from Middlefield to this new hospital. 2. Continually deteriorating employee morale over last 12 months. 3. Unavailability of quality instructors for the Nursing Degree programs.
Once in a while overtime may be beneficial, but logbooks indicate that it is been used too frequently in hospitals and other nursing facilities. In fact, a study has shown that of 5317 work shifts, 40% exceeded 12 hours (Rogers, Hwang, Scott, Aiken, & Dinges, 2004). In some instances, nurses are notified only an hour prior to knowing that they will be staying overtime. Nurses can be subjected to threats of disciplinary action or dismissal from their job if they refuse to stay the extra shift (Widowfield, 2004). This often leaves nurses feeling powerless over their work life as well as their personal life.
It’s important to observe mental status changes and functional status changes, this can determine how well the patient can take care of themselves and deal with their health promotion on their own. Altered cognition is not a normal part of aging and the nurse may need to pay close attention to the possibilities of the onset of dementia. Activities of daily living include everything we do during our normal day to properly take care of ourselves and as we get older these tasks may become more difficult. Nurses need to assess how well a patient can see or hear, vision and hearing loss can be quite debilitating to performing ADL’s and it’s the nurses job to make sure our patient is in a safe environment and that they have proper vision/hearing care with proper strength prescriptions for their glasses or hearing assessments. It is very important to remember that hearing and vision loss is normal with aging and that when we perform our assessments we should talk slowly and annunciate clearly so the patient can understand any direction or education that is given (GCU, 2012).
Background Stress in nursing is problematic as it affects the quality of patient’s care and, the impact of nurse’s burnout could be serious. A review from Griffiths and Mimura (2003) presented several researches on strategies, like, education, role playing, nursing method...; it claimed cognitive strategy was the effective one among the others on approaching stress in nursing. In fact, the data could not possibility reflect such result. The source of invalidation could be unveiled from Griffiths and Mimura (2003) cited Crockett and Lee (1994), the research of cognitive techniques study only conducted for two weeks of 12 hours in total. Despite the conclusion was rated as effective or, the result of the statistical test was scored as significant; within this brief timing, the effectiveness or accuracy is questionable.
Also the nurse can stress the importance of taking the medicine on time and the right dosage. You cannot be on blood pressure medication for long period of time and just stop because that would cause your blood pressure to go out of whack. Another intervention that can happen is the nurse can take a full inventory so to speak of the patient’s medicine and explaining what would happen if the medicine expired. Another intervention is explaining that once a medicine is expired its potency is gone and it will not help your body. Also it is important to know that the patient’s medicine is just that – it is the patient’s medicine.
They may also conduct research, act as consultants or provide education to staff and family members. This nursing career requires a high level of diligence and teamwork. You will work closely with parents, neonatologists and other nurse specialists to achieve optimal results for your tiny patients. There are three levels in the neonatal nursing specialty: • Level I care for healthy infants. The demand for this level of neonatal nursing is decreasing because mothers and newborn babies are now more likely to stay in the same room together after birth.
With other less stressful professional occupations available to a profession that is primarily female individuals are leaving the profession (Fox & Abrahamson, 2009). Other factors influencing the nursing shortage include increased workloads, increased demand for specialty nurses, and decreased financial assistance available for nursing education. Unless each contributing factor is individually addressed with adequate solutions the nursing shortage
Introduction of Capstone Project Roxane Spinelli Chamberlain College of Nursing Capstone NR660 Dr. Mikel Hand March 6, 2014 Introduction of Capstone Project Nursing is considered to be a challenging profession, due to the nurses working long hours caring for patients that are extremely ill and dying. There have been discussions among the experts on how to reduce job-related burnout and job dissatisfaction, decrease nurse workloads and improve patient safety. They have continued, stating there should be more nurses working in hospitals per patient. This is measured as the nurse-to-patient ratio. This can be described as one nurse taking care of x-amount of patients.
The Cons to breastfeeding is that it is very time consuming, the need to eat for newborns is typically every 2 to 3 hours during the day and at night. Moms are often fatigued due to the energy required to produce milk. Moms become anxious and are frustrated at the process of breastfeeding. Education should be a key goal. Moms should be informed of what is to happen after delivery of their child.
Women are for some reason more susceptible than men, possibly because women are said to live longer than men. The use of certain drugs, such as NSAID’s and statin’s (cholesterol lowering drugs) seem to be linked to patients with Alzheimer’s as well. You’re probably thinking, “If there is no known cause than how do we protect/help our loved ones from this disease?” There are ten major signs/symptoms that can be watched for to help get early treatment for Alzheimer’s: * Difficulties performing familiar tasks such as cooking, operating a car window, or using house hold appliances. * Memory loss affecting job skills such as frequently forgetting appointments, colleague’s phone numbers, or becoming so confused that they are unable to perform their job function. * Problems using language: substituting unusual words or phrases for forgotten ones (ex: instead of asking for a toothbrush, asking for “that mouth