Critical Appraisal of Missed Nursing Care in Hospitals

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CRITICAL APPRAISSAL 2
Critical appraisal
Introduction
One of the main roles of a registered nurse is to ensure that the patient eats whatever
was prescribed by the physician. This includes ensuring that the patient gets the correct
medicine at the right time or care in general. However, there are some incidences whereby
the nurse failed to provide the prescribed or recommended care prescribed by the physician
(Bragadóttir, Kalisch, & Tryggvadóttir, 2017). This is what is known as missed nursing care.
Missed nursing care can therefore be defined as any omission of standard and needed care.
According to studies, several factors contribute to missed nursing care. The most common
are attributes of the staff members and unit, views on staffing adequacy. Finally, nursing
teamwork evidenced in the nursing model also contributes to missed nursing care. the
objective of this particular study was to identify how hospital unit, staff characteristics,
staffing adequacy and teamwork contribute to missed nursing care in hospitals in Iceland.
Within the framework of this essay, there will be a critical appraisal of the study.
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The research problem and its significance
It is the role of nurses to ensure patient as explained in the Patient safety Primer.
There is a well-connected link between number of nurses and the patient outcomes such
as mortality (Ball et al., 2018). However, little knowledge exists to explain the pathway
between nurse staffing and patient outcomes. Some studies have however proposed
amount of surveillance, ongoing assessment which can be provided under a given staffing
structure (Jones, Hamilton, & Murry, 2015). Missed nursing care is another proposed
pathway.
Missed nursing care is any form of prescribed care to the patient that the nurse
fails to accomplish. Since it is the role of nurses to coordinate, provide and evaluate
nursing interventions prescribed by other experts to treat illness in hospitals and to plan,
deliver and evaluate nursing interventions to promote health and healing, missed nursing
care is considered problematic. Furthermore, studies show that missed care is not only a
medical error but a medical underuse.
Before any research is conducted, the researcher should come up with specific
data on the effect of the particular problem to be investigated (Brooks Carthon, Lasater,
Sloane, & Kutney-Lee, 2015). However in this article there is no justification of the
consequences of missed care. In the background section, the researcher only pointed out
to the likely causes of the missed care nursing but did not categorically states some of the
potential consequences associated with the problem.