Mitchell Wood, Stephanie Bryant, Katherine Unruh, Katie Schminke
*I used Stephanie’s maiden name when narrating. I’m unable to edit the single slide without having to re narrate the entire thing so I apologize!
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Great job! I was not aware that staffing issue have been a hot topic since the 1930’s. It is crazy that nurses pull mandatory overtime even when they have worked 12 hour shifts. No wonder why burnout is an issue.
I also had no idea that a staffing crisis has been an issue sine World War II. That is crazy! You would think after all these years we would have identified a better way to either retain nurses. I do applaud California for creating safe staffing laws. We need to start regulating our staffing ratios for the safety of our nurses and our patients.
Once again, legislative regulation is crucial to ensure a proper nursing: patient ratio. Like the nursing topic Nurse burnt out, most nurse feel overwhelmed when working in such conditions; therefore, the nurse turn over is higher nowadays. Great point in including case mix which I believe not only increase expertise in the newly ones when working with the seasoned nurse but also decrease the workload. Good topic!
Nursing burnout is a hot topic everywhere. I work in a rural hospital where there is only 2 nurses on staff for every 12 hour shift. The average census is 2-3 patients per day and even in our facility we have nurse burnout. We have only 10 nurses on staff in our facility so when a couple of people request days off in a week then the rest of the staff have to pick up the open shifts. We are always hiring, however we rarely get applicants in our area. It requires someone moving to our area, it is not because people are just up for a change in their current job.
There are many studies on nurse staffing. One study come to the conclusion that hospitals must provide appropriate nurse staffing to improve the staffing adequacy perceived by patients and nurses and to ensure positive patient experiences during hospitalization (Cho et al., 2017). Staffing has always been a topic in nursing, it is up to us to find innovative ways to overcome shortages in nurses. Patient satisfaction is high priority in every hospital now and this is a patients perception of care. Many times I have noticed patients perception of “good care” in a hospital is not medicine or diagnostic related but it is comfort and needs related. Something as simple as a warm blanket can make a patients morning. Safe patient to nurse ratio is different in different areas of nursing and it can change depending on the individual patients acuity. Nurse staffing will always be a problem in general hospitals. Good topic thanks for sharing your research.
Reference
Cho, Sung-Hyun,PhD., R.N., Mark, Barbara A, PhD,R.N., F.A.A.N., Knafl, G., PhD., Chang, Hyoung Eun,M.P.H., R.N., & Yoon, H., R.N. (2017). Relationships between nurse staffing and patients’ experiences, and the mediating effects of missed nursing care. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 49(3), 347-355. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu:2048/10.1111/jnu.12292
I remember writing a paper about staffing issues for one of my classes. It would have been great to have your powerpoint for extra research. Short staffing is a severe issue regarding patient safety, and budgeting is to blame most of the time.
Staffing is such a hot topic with nurses and rightfully so. Although my current jobs do a great job of staffing, I have never worked a floor job that I didn’t feel overwhelmed and understaffed. I think it is interesting the ratios you mentioned and certainly hope they will be made law. The poor outcomes and nurse burnout has to be fixed and I think appropriate staffing is one of the ways this will happen. Great job!
Great information! Staffing always seems to be an area of concern regardless of the care setting. Nurse staffing has been an issue at our facility in the recent weeks. Census, as well as the acuity of the patients admitted, has been steadily increasing. Along with patient illness came employee illness and we had numerous call-ins. Taking care of a larger number of high acuity patients without adequate staffing is unsafe for both the patient and the staff. I couldn’t believe what a difference it made just having one less staff member. It really made me appreciate the shifts that are fully staffed.
Higher numbers of nurses are associated with improved survival rates among patients the very seriously ill. A study determined that seven additional lives would be saved for every 100 patients if nurse numbers increased from four to six per bed. Researchers discovered that the reason survival rates improved with higher numbers of nurses was that nurses spend more time with critically ill patients than other healthcare professionals do, and are more likely to detect early signs of deterioration. Another reason is that fewer permanent staff might mean greater reliance on agency staff who may have less expertise or be unfamiliar with some aspects of a unit’s way of working.
Duffin, C. (2014). Increase in nurse numbers linked to better patient survival rates
in ICU. Nursing Standard, 28(33),10. DOI: 10.7748/ns2014.04.28.33.10.s8