Short Staffing in Nursing.

Identify one potential issue presented in the class that you may encounter in your current work environment or in an environment you wish to pursue. Research the issue further using your textbook, the university library, or the internet. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation of 6 to 8 slides by identifying previous case histories either in the text provided or from your research. Include the following points in your presentation: Description of the healthcare scenario (e.g. A Nurse is presented with a patient that has refused treatment, but the hospital decided to treat the patient regardless) Description of the legal considerations (i.e. what are the rights of the patient and what are the rights of the hospital) Propose resolutions and your interpretation of the expected conclusion (i.e. how was the case litigated and what your views are) Add points within the speaker notes section of your PowerPoint that supports the presentation.

Short Staffing in Nursing
Student’s Name
Professor’s Name
Institutional Affiliation

Research Questions
• What is the main reason nurses leave healthcare jobs?
• How can the challenge facing nurses be corrected?
• What are the legal considerations?

Research Methods
Cross-sectional study
• The researcher used a sample size of 239 employees in
Chamberlain University (Slawson, 2014).
• The research participants used simple random sampling method.
• Later descriptive analyses were performed.

Advantages and disadvantage of cross-sectional
method
Advantages Disadvantages
It is quick and easy to use.
Can’t determine the causes and impacts (McQuilten, et
al., 2017).
Can be used to prove assumptions. Not used to analyze behaviour.
It is cheap (Ellis, 2016). Snapshot findings might not be represented.

Description of the healthcare scenario
• Staffing is a personal and professional concern for nurses.
• Short staffing is the main reason nurses leave healthcare jobs (Charney,
2012).
• Inadequate staffing threatens patients’ safety and health. For example, they
are prone to wrong drug administration due to nurses fatigue.
• Short staffing may lead to more exceptional complex care.
• Inadequate staffing affects nurses’ health and safety by increasing fatigue and
amount of injury. For example, short staffing make nurses to work on shifts
day and night.
• Short staffing hinders nurses' efforts to carry care processes.
• Lower staffing increases patients’ mortality due to drug administration errors.

Description of the legal consideration
• Health commissions approve a mandate of nurse staffing in the intensive care
unit (ICU) (Larson, 2013).
• The regulatory body requires nurses to be assigned a maximum of two patients in
the intensive care unit (Shaikh, 2017).
• Regulations are applied to all ICUs. For example, both the adults and infants
intensive care unit applies these regulations.

Proposed resolution and
conclusionResolution
• Increase in the number of nurses.
• There need to be no understaffing of nurses in ICU.
Conclusion
• Higher nurse staffing reduces the mortality rate.
• Increased number of nurses promotes health.

References
• Charney, W. (2012). Epidemic of medical errors and hospital-acquired infections:
systemic and social causes. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• Ellis, P. (2016). Understanding research for nursing students. Learning Matters.
• Larson, J. A. (2013). Management engineering: a guide to best practices for
industrial engineering in health care. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
• McQuilten, Zatta, Andrianopoulos, Aoki, Stevenson, Badami, . . . Wood. (2017).
Evaluation of clinical coding data to determine causes of critical bleeding in
patients receiving massive transfusion: A bi‐national, multicentre, cross‐sectional
study. Transfusion Medicine, 27(2), 114-121.
• Shaikh, N. (2017). Intensive care. Norderstedt, Germany: BoD – Books on
Demand.
• Slawson, W. D. (2014). The new inflation: the collapse of free markets.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.