Nursing Assignment | Care Staff Shortage

Running head: CHANGE IN THE GLOBAL WORLD
Change in the global world
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Care staff ratio in Nursing Home
Shortage of staff is a global problem in the current world. The most highlighted global
issue is the decrease of the care staff ratio in the nursing homes. The medical centers are the most
important place that exists in the world. The shortage of employees in the medical centers is the
worst problem that can exist. It is not possible to give special attention to the patients who gets
admitted in the hospitals. The first and foremost problem of having inadequate staff is the lack of
offering proper service to the patients and the other problem is the pressure that the staffs have to
go through. It becomes a pressure for the staffs as they are required to work for a longer period
of time and they get exhausted. As a result there are high chances of the spread of the disease and
the patients remain uncured.
According to Blake et al. (2013), one of the most obvious reasons for this is that the
health sectors cannot afford the staffs. In order to have more staffs the company requires hiring
more staffs and this is an expensive process. It has been observed that in many cases the
company is unable to hire staffs in more numbers as they can cannot the salary of the employees.
This is true to some extent but in order to get the best quality staff the company must recruit
more staffs. The company should not expect one staff to do the work of 10 staffs. It has been
argued by Neuhausen et al. (2014), that to solve this problem the shareholders must increase
their budget. They should open such health care only if they are having enough funds to do so.
The other stakeholders like the government and the local bodies must take this as their priority
and should keep enough money aside for regulating the number of staffs in the nursing homes.
The reason for having more staffs is the better facility that the organizations can offer. The
patients must be under complete care in the nursing homes (Caspar et al., 2013).

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However it has been stated by Fjær and Vabø (2013), that the other reason of having less
staffs is the poor approach towards this study. The study of nursing is considered to be a low
form of study in the present world. This study is not promoted much. This is another reason of
the scarcity of nurses in the health sectors. The study of nursing is not encouraged at every
household. It has comparatively less demand than the other branch of studies. This is the reason
this has become a global problem which is not limited to any particular region but it has been
spread to the entire world (Edwards et al., 2014).
From the above discussion the main issue has been recognized. There are however much
way to overcome the challenge. The foremost solution is recruit more staffs. The hospitals and
the nursing homes should recruit more staffs in order to provide better service to the patients.
The recruitment of more staffs can be costly but in order to offer better service the organizations
must take this initiative (Lin, 2014).
There is less number of people who are aware of the proper services related to the health
care sectors. The study of nursing should be made popular and it should be promoted so that
there are more individuals with the proper education of nursing. This will enable the
organizations to have more eligible staff and the organization will not suffer from the shortage of
staffs in the organization (Neuhausen et al., 2014).
It has been argued by Neuhausen et al. (2014), that the salary of the nurses should be
increased. The nurses in most organizations are not paid properly. They have a low remuneration
compared to their jobs. The occupation of the nurses includes lot of physical as well as mental
pressure. They are not paid well for their effort. They must be paid well in order to increase the
amount of care staff ratio in the nursing homes. Along with the salary the care staffs should be