Understaffing in the Residential Aged Care

Hello everyone!!! Good morning..... Today I am going to present on the topic
‘Understaffing in the Residential Aged Care’.
Slide 1 (OVERVIEW)
In this slide we are going to discuss the fact that Australia has a relatively large
proportion of older people, with more than 15% of the population aged 65 years or over,
which has resulted in strong demand for aged care places (Cooper et al., 2013). This causes a
huge burden on the nurses who work in these residential aged care as these care homes do not
have sufficient workforce are very much frustrated and burdened with work. However, the
aged care industry currently does not have any regulation related to the minimum staff levels.
Thus, it is important to discuss the entire situation as it shows the effects of understaffing
(Hodgkin et al., 2017).
Slide 2 (BACKGROUND)
In this slide it is shown that understaffing in the residential aged care is a very
important topic as it is linked to the quality of care that is being received by the older
population and the type of treatment that is being received by the older people. The older
people prefer to stay at their own home, however they have to move to the residential care
when home care is not available or is not adequate (Sheridan & Agim, 2014). Understaffing
is thus related to the improper care and higher medication errors that can affect the positive
patient outcome (Sheridan & Agim, 2014; Jeon et al., 2017). This results in frequent change
of jobs among the nurses that also hampers the patient’s quality of care (Jeon et al., 2017).
Slide 3 (OBJECTIVE)
This slide highlights the objectives that are to be addressed for the identification of the
problems that are being caused due to the understaffing. The main aim or objective is to
discuss the main factors that can cause the burnout among the nurses (Junge, 2018). These