Understaffing Nursing Assignment Report

UNDERSTAFFING
NURSING
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OVERVIEW
 Background
 Objectives
 Outline of the Topic
 Conclusion

Background
 The heavy workload of nurses is a major issue for the
Australian healthcare system.
 Causes of understaffing of nurses:
 high demand for nurses, the decline in staffing and
increased overtime, and an inadequate supply of
nurses (Wang 2016).
 Impact of Understaff nurse
 patient safety (Hall et al. 2014)
 nursing job satisfaction
 high turnover and nursing shortages (Hayward et al.
2016).
 quality healthcare of patients (Mosadeghrad 2014)
 nurse safety and job satisfaction (Gulavani & Shinde
2014)
 patient mortality and increases healthcare cost
(Martin 2015).