According to the literature reviewed, there is a direct correlation between turnover of nurses and CNAs to the quality of patient care. Hunt (2009) gives a concise explanation of the correlation of staff shortage on patient care: Staff shortages caused by nursing turnover are associated with significant decreases in the general quality of patient care, increases in the length of patient stays within hospitals, and greater numbers of hospital-acquired patient illnesses and conditions that do not qualify for Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement (p.3) Another report published by the American Association of College of Nurses’ stated the same thing that there is a correlation between nurse to patient ratio and the quality of care given. As a result many organizations are left having to do major damage control externally, to prevent a bad reputation. Instead of external PR, organizations need to start taking a hard internal look at their staff management. Reasons for Staff
Alarm Fatigue in Health Care: A Concept Analysis Chamberlain College of Nursing NR-501: Theoretical Basis for Advanced Nursing Practice Alarm Fatigue in Health Care: A Concept Analysis Alarm fatigue in health care has grown to be an ever-growing concern in the health care arena, especially when looking at patient safety concerns. There must be an understanding of the problem before we can develop policies and effective strategies to counter this problem. The concept of alarm fatigue in health care will be evaluated utilizing the method developed by Walker and Avant (2010) that identifies and gives the significance of the attributes, antecedents, and end-consequences of alarm fatigue in health care. This will be developed based off of literature review, along with the use of model and contradictory cases to emphasize the data discovered in the review stage. Key words utilized during the search include alarm, fatigue, alarm fatigue, nursing, interruptions, & distractions.
Research Critique, Part 1 Many research studies are conducted every day and not all are credible. It is important to critique research studies before implementing them into practice. A good research critique “involves a careful, complete examination of that study to judge its strengths, weaknesses, meaning, credibility, and significance for practice”(Burns & Grove, 2010, p. 419). This paper will critique a qualitative study on pressure ulcers. Problem Statement Nurses play an important role in preventing pressure ulcers.
The importance goes further to the core of the problem focusing on the nurse and evaluating what is needed to be done in order to educate this patient group. The research problem involves nurses who are not comfortable discussing end-of-life issues with their patients and is identified in the first few paragraphs of the article. This is a significant problem nurses and doctors can educate, manage and monitor for these chronic patients. The purpose is not clearly stated in the study, but is inferred within the abstract of the article as well. Patients and families dealing with potential end-of-life issues is a very common problem in health care today.
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.
Compassion Fatigue and its Affect on Nursing Kelly Kramer Drexel On-Line Compassion Fatigue and its Affects on Nursing Compassion fatigue is a rising issue for nurses working in all specialties of nursing, mainly in critical care. In this paper I will be discussing compassion fatigue, it’s symptoms, how it affects the nursing profession and individual nurses, as well as the hospitals and what untreated compassion fatigue can mean for the future of nursing. Compassion fatigue, also referred to as secondary traumatic stress syndrome, has been defined by Charles Figley as the “natural consequent behaviors and emotions resulting from knowing about a traumatizing event experienced by a significant other – the stress resulting from helping, or wanting to help, a traumatized or suffering person”(Figley, 1995, p. 7). Although compassion fatigue has been studied more in the past 20 years in regards to nursing, there have not been many tools developed to measure the presence of it. There is a general consensus among all the articles that I read regarding the need for more studies, tools to assess and programs at hospitals for nurses.
ay RESEARCH SUMMARY AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS Research Summary and Ethical Considerations Ancy Mathew Grand Canyon University: NRS 433V Introduction to Nursing Research 7/27/12 Research Summary and Ethical Considerations It is important for nurses to have a special relationship with a patient’s family. The relationship between a nurse and loved ones of a patient is considered complex to understand at times. The complexity of the relationship does depend on how long the patient is in care for, for example maybe it might be for a few hours or maybe for long period of time in an intensive care department, etc. In order to understand the study I chose for this paper it is important that we discuss what the Family Center Care is. The Family Center Care (FCC) is an advance to the planning, delivery and evaluation of health care that is founded in the similarities of partnerships among health care providers, patients, and families.
Loss: A Concept Analysis Nerissa A. Trask University of South Alabama Loss: A Concept Analysis Loss is a term used frequently in the discipline of nursing. A better understanding of the concept loss is needed as it pertains to nursing due to the many meanings it has to different people. Chinn and Kramer (2011) state that the process of constructing conceptual meaning is the basis for establishing theory. This is important because advanced practice nursing is a discipline that is guided by theory. The purpose of this paper is to provide a concept analysis of loss including its significance to nursing, its many uses and definitions, defining criteria which are used in an exemplar case, and cases describing what the concept is not.
Differences in Competencies between ADN and BSN NRS-430v Professional Dynamics Grand Canyon University Each and every day changes are occurring in health care system not only in US but also in all over the world. These changes also can be observed in nursing. In health care setting nurses have so many vital roles to play. In addition to providing care nurses need to participate in decision making process in all fields of health care system. As “nursing is based upon a body of knowledge that is always changing with new discoveries and innovation” Potter and Perry (2005), nursing profession need to improve from its old fashioned bedside nursing.
Yeh and Mei Chang (1990) extensively examined the effects of job characteristics, work-family conflict and conservative on despondency and angst among 531 married full-time nurses from hospitals in Taiwan. Factor analysis, correlation matrices, multiple regression analysis, t-test and ANOVA were used to test the hypothesis. The tested hypothesis revealed that job characteristics are negatively, while job demand was positively correlated with depression and anxiety. Results demonstrated that the effects of employment on women’s mental health (i.e.) anxiety and depression not only depend on job characteristics, but also on work-family conflict and the coping style.