Analysis of Staffing Shortage in Saudi Arabia Emergency Rooms: Report

This report delves into the significant issue of staffing shortages within emergency rooms in Saudi Arabia, encompassing nurses, midwives, and other healthcare personnel. The introduction highlights the crucial role these staff members play in delivering healthcare, promoting health, and preventing illness. The report then explores the global context of this issue, noting shortages in Western countries and the growing challenges faced by healthcare systems. The core of the report focuses on Saudi Arabia, where the shortage is particularly acute, impacting healthcare delivery due to societal factors, working conditions, and high turnover rates. The report presents data on nurse shortages, educational challenges, system-related issues, and social challenges like the rejection of the nursing profession and communication barriers. It analyzes the impact on the country, including increased demand, population growth, and the rising number of critically ill patients. Recommendations are provided, focusing on government intervention to reduce stress and healthcare organizations adhering to national regulations. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of improving the status of nursing in Saudi Arabia and the need for education reform and support to encourage more individuals to enter the profession. References to supporting literature are included.

SHORTAGE OF STAFFING IN
EMERGENCY ROOM
SAUDI ARABIA

INTRODUCTION
 The staffs in the emergency rooms that includes the nurses, the
midwives and other personnel of health care constitute more
than 55% of the labor force of a country
 The staffs in the emergency room plays a very essential role in
the delivering of the care related to health furthermore
advocating the promotion of the health, keeping an eye on the
wellbeing and the prevention of the illness, injury, contagious
diseases in the emergency room and provide support to the
patients

THE GLOBAL ISSUE
 The western countries of the world
re experiencing the shortage of the
employees for the emergency room
that is furthermore affecting the
supply of the expertise nurses.
 The health care systems in the
globe had been facing the growing
number of challenges in the context
of the health needs

THE CURRENT STATUS AT SAUDI
ARABIA
 The shortage and the lack of the employees in the emergency
room appears to be the most significant issue in the Saudi Arabia
 The society and the social relation in the eastern country like
Saudi Arabia usually tends to impact on the health practitioners
like the nurses, the doctors and the emergency room care givers
due to the open and the hectic working environment, long and
strenuous work hours in the closed society of Saudi Arabia
 According to the report by Alboliteeh, Magarey and Wiechula
(2017) there had been a chronic shortage of the health care
givers of about 30-35% that furthermore included heavy
migration of the nurses in the year 2010

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ISSUE OF
SHORTAGE OF STAFFS
 It has been estimated that there will be more that 1.5 million
deficit of the registered employees working in the emergency
rooms of the health care centers of the country by the year 2020.
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2
2.5
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3.5
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2.3
2.8
1.6
Nurses
Nurses
Figure: The existence of the rate of the nurses in the county of Saudi
Arabia
Source: (Al-Qahtani et al. 2017)

THE EXISTING RATE OF THE ISSUE
 Majority of the expertise professionals in the
emergency rooms of the health care sector of
the country use the sector and the facilities as
the means for the temporary occasions for the
obtaining of the experiences and proper training
which they used to move towards some of the
essential marketable skills in the aim of pursuing
in the developed countries including the USA ,
Canada, The United Kingdom and Australia
 The high turnover rates among the nurse and
the health care givers tends to contribute some
of the major administrative issues and further
interruption of the plans of the organization that
results in poor delivery of the services

MAJOR CHALLENGES
Education
related
challenges
The
challenges
in the
system
The social
challenges
Personal
challenges

CHALLENGES RELATED TO
EDUCATION
 Demand for nursing education in the
country
 The Hospital bed education

THE DEMAND FOR NURSING
EDUCATION IN SAUDI ARABIA
 The pattern of the education of the provision of the diploma and
associated degrees in the nursing education has initiated in some
of the major restriction of the process of the nursing profession
 The nursing education in the Saudi Arabia has long been either
diploma or the associated degrees offered by the ministry of
Health and the higher education which has raise to the concern
and the challenges regarding the education purpose

ON JOB EDUCATION
The hospital bed education
furthermore posses as one of the
essential factors for the health care
givers of the organization that
contributes to the motivation,
retention or satisfaction to hold on
to the job.

SYSTEM CHALLENGES
Poor working condition
The high turnover rate of the
nurses and the health care
professionals
The regulations and the policies of
nursing

BAD WORKING CONDITIONS
 Poor working condition tops the list of the challenges in the
system. Attributed to some of the factors related to the work
some of the major issues in the profession are the long work
hours, the gender mixing and the rotational shift which targets
the staffs employed for the emergency rooms in the health care
units as an socially unacceptable choice of the occupation