Inadequate Support for Healthcare Workers and Its Impact on Common Good

Running head: COMMON GOOD
COMMON GOOD
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COMMON GOOD
Politically, common good can be described as the facilities that might be material.
Institutional as well as cultural that the members of the community provide to all the different
types of members so that the relational obligation can be fulfilled (Moss et al., 2016). This is
mainly based on the foundations where the members of the community interests that the
individuals have in common. This assignment will mainly try to highlight one of the issues like
the inadequate support for the healthcare workers that in turn breach the principles of common
goad by affecting the servicer users as well as the workers who are responsible for the health of
their patients.
Many of the healthcare organizations are often seen to set goals of higher profitability
and one of the strategies often taken by such employers is to allocate lesser number of healthcare
professionals like nurses and other experts in comparison to their number of patients who are
admitted to the healthcare centers (Moss et al., 2016). Therefore, often nurses are seen to find
themselves in situations where the nurse patient ratio becomes quite low thereby increasing the
risks of hazards on the patients.
The nurses have to tackle more number of nurses for which they cannot ensure quality
care to the patients, results in larger waiting times of the patients and many others. The nurses do
not get enough time to establish a relationship of trust and respect with patients as they remain in
a hurry to attend the next patients (Lennox et al., 2015).
Hence, the patients feel neglected and do not experience satisfaction with the care given.
This result in development of negative feeling in the patients where they feel that professionals
are not enough dedicated to their needs as expected and this creates barrier in development of
therapeutic relationship with patient. Therefore, this affects the patient emotionally and mentally,

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as they feel depressed and unsatisfied about the professionals in the new healthcare environment.
This has negative impacts on the patient that affect their health (Powers et al., 2015).
In addition, huge number of safety issues, medication errors, missed meals, missed
medications; delegation errors and other also take place that affect the health of the patients
(Dehghani et al., 2015). It increases their stays in the hospitals, increase readmissions, increased
flow of finances and other resources and others. Thus is affects the common goods by mainly
affecting the patients.
Inadequate support for the healthcare workers result in creation of increased work
pressure on them which affect their mental and physical health making them suffer from
burnouts. They become prone to make more mistakes that might involve them in legal
obligations. Therefore, this affects their quality of life and they tend to leave the profession that
affect their life as well as affects service users as well.
Moreover, many of the individuals also complain of lack of advancement opportunities
where they state that the employers do not give them opportunities for inhouse skills training,
technology training, and education reimbursement as well as opportunities for innovation. This
results in disruption of their career growth opportunities that affect their motivation and prevent
them from providing skilled and evidence based care for higher quality nursing (Ullstrom et al.,
2014).
Work overload and short staffing thereby increases their stress where they have to serve
more number of patients than they could provide effective care to. This result in compromise
care quality and increased risks for errors and accidents.