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Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENTNursing assignmentName of the student:Name of the University:Author’s note
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1NURSING ASSIGNMENTNurse Staffing and Outcome of careScope and impact of the topic issue:Nurse staffing or appropriate patient-nurse ration is an important parameter that determines the patient care quality and safety. It is directly related to outcome of care as adequate nurse-patient ratio promotes efficiency in care delivery, increases job satisfaction and patient satisfaction with care (Frith et al, 2012). However, the issues is that many hospital fail to maintain required nurse staffing level thus contributing to many issues for nurse. Nurses who are forced to work for long shift are often overworked, stress and dissatisfied with the job. Due to time constraints and the need to care for large number of patient than required, they fail to give proper care to individual patient. This results in high incidence of adverse events like medication error, fall incidence, hospital-associated infection and injury in patient (Rahman & Shamsudin, 2015).. Hence, nurse staffing issue not only affects performance of nurses, but also has an impacton outcome of care.Many evidence exists to show the effect of nurse staffing levels on high rate of falls and deaths in hospital. Wong, Cummings & Ducharme (2013) proved impact of nurse staffing on patient outcome by showing that low nurse staffing level significantly increases the risk of nosocomial infection, patient fall and patient mortality in a clinical setting. Along with the increase in adverse patient event, nurse staffing level also increase length of stay in hospital and total health expenditure. Another study established link between patient outcome nurse staffing level by conducting a cross-sectional interview based research with nurses working in surgical and medical wards in 12 private hospitals. The findings of the study revealed that low nurse: patient ratio had negative association with quality of care and patient safety compared to those
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