Assignment 5: Patients quality of life
Assignment 5: Patients quality of life
Discussion 1 According to “The Nursing Shortage” (2013) , The
problem is not having enough nurses in health care field to
provide quality care to our patients. Not having enough nurses
lead to many problems and bad patient care outcome. Few
examples includes Quality care which has to be majorly affected
due to the shortage, patients health is affected badly by poor
health care which is again possible due to the lack of nurses or in
the situation of an overworked nurses. The cause and effect is
widespread across the board but includes, high-demand stressful
work days with little value placed on their abilities to perform as a
nurse. The staff to patient ratio is generally pushed to the brink
which leads to overworked, often unhealthy and frustrated
employees. A tired person can never be able to provide efficient
care to patients. The causes of the nursing shortage is due to
inadequate resources for nursing research and education. Not
recognizing and respecting nurses for their hard work, not
providing competitive wages and not proving flexible schedule to
the nurses. I think the solution to this problem according to “The
Nursing Shortage” (2013,) Is to grant nurses more autonomy to
practice their profession and to make their own decision about
their patient as this builds their confidence and motivates them
work harder. Facilities and hospital should also create a friendly
environment that will make nurses happy and willing stay in their
fields of work such as providing more incentives like bonuses and

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