Narrated PowerPoint Presentation: Understaffing in Aged Care Homes

This narrated PowerPoint presentation addresses the critical issue of understaffing in residential aged care homes. It provides an overview of the problem, highlighting its impact on patient safety and the well-being of healthcare staff. The presentation delves into the background of the issue, explaining its significance and the challenges faced by the elderly residents and the nursing workforce. It outlines the objectives of the presentation, focusing on identifying the underlying causes of burnout among nurses, the factors affected by staff shortages, and potential solutions to improve healthcare services for older adults. The presentation concludes by summarizing the importance of addressing understaffing to ensure quality care, reduce medical errors, and promote job satisfaction among nurses, supported by evidence-based literature. This presentation is designed to fulfill the requirements of a nursing assignment focusing on patient safety and a healthy workplace, providing a comprehensive analysis of the issues and potential solutions related to understaffing in aged care.

UNDERSTAFFING IN
RESIDENTIAL AGED
CARE HOME

 A lot of people every year avail the residential aged care home
(Cooper et al., 2013).
 Research shows that the residential aged care home are understaffed
and that causes immense problem for the proper handling of the
patients and aged people.
 Residential aged care is a organisation that falls under the most
resource-intensive category of aged care, thus providing higher
level of care to the older people (Hodgkin et al., 2017).
OVERVIEW

BACKGROUND
 As the research shows that a large proportion of residents who stay
at aged care are 90 and over. This shows that 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).
 This increases the burden on the residential care staff that causes
burnout among them as the nurses get burdened with work
 This results in frequent change of jobs among the nurses that also
hampers the patient’s quality of care (Jeon et al., 2017 ).

OBJECTIVE
 The main objective is to find out the
underlying reasons that cause the burnout
among the nurses (Junge, 2018)
 The next aim is to know the factors that can be
hampered by the shortage of nursing staff.
 The last objective is to find out the various
ways in which the understaffing can be
controlled or reversed so that the older people
can get access to better healthcare services
(Jaye et al., 2016).

OUTLINE OF TOPIC
Elder abuse
and neglect
(Shah, 2017)
Inadequate
nursing
facilities
(Banerjee et
al., 2017)
High labor cost
in the nursing
homes (Burns,
Hyde & Killett,
2016)
Cause
Overworked and
stressed staff leads
to medical
errors(Astrain,
2017)
Effect
Increased
medical error
and decrease in
the positive
patient outcome.
Outcom
e

CONCLUSION
•Thus it can be
concluded that the
understaffing in the
residential care can
lead to the decrease in
the quality of care for
the older people.
•It can also cause job
dissatisfaction among
the nurses that
increases the risk of
medical error.

REFERENCES
Astrain, B. A. (2017, December). Growing demand, precariousness and austerity: The long way
to universal and quality long-term care in Europe. In United Nations Department of
Economic and Social Affairs, Expert Group Meeting on Care and Older Persons.
Banerjee, A., Armstrong, P., Daly, T., Armstrong, H., & Braedley, S. (2015). “Careworkers don't
have a voice:” Epistemological violence in residential care for older people. Journal of
aging studies, 33, 28-36.
Burns, D., Hyde, P., & Killett, A. (2016). How financial cutbacks affect job quality and care of
the elderly. Industrial Labor Relations Review.
Cooper, C., Dow, B., Hay, S., Livingston, D., & Livingston, G. (2013). Care workers’ abusive
behavior to residents in care homes: a qualitative study of types of abuse, barriers, and
facilitators to good care and development of an instrument for reporting of abuse
anonymously. International psychogeriatrics, 25(5), 733-741.
Hodgkin, S., Warburton, J., Savy, P., & Moore, M. (2017). Workforce crisis in residential aged
care: insights from rural, older workers. Australian Journal of Public
Administration, 76(1), 93-105.

REFERENCES
Jaye, C., Tordoff, J., Butler, M., Hale, B., McKechnie, R., Robertson, L., &
Simpson, J. (2016). Quality in residential care: exploring residents’, family
members’, managers’ and staff perspectives. Quality in Ageing and Older
Adults, 17(4), 253-262.
Jeon, Y. H., Merlyn, T., Sansoni, E., & Glasgow, N. (2017). Optimising the
residential aged care workforce: leadership & management study.
Junge, T. P. (2018). The link between work related basic need satisfaction and
subjective well-being in the residential care(Bachelor's thesis, University of
Twente).
Shah, H. B. (2017). Understaffed and Overworked: Poor Working Conditions and
Quality of Care in Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly.
Sheridan, L., & Agim, T. (2014). Aged care safety dilemma: Caring‐for‐self
versus caring‐for‐residents. Australasian journal on ageing, 33(4), 283-285.