Analysis of Nursing Practice Problems, Solutions, and PICOT Framework

This report examines the challenges faced in nursing and medical practices, highlighting issues such as registered nurse shortages, ethical dilemmas, and policy impacts. The analysis covers the overpopulation of senior nurses, the challenges associated with medical practices, and the importance of ethical guidelines. The report also emphasizes the significance of the PICOT framework in ensuring goal achievement for patients. The frontline services require proper care in policy management and continuity. The report suggests that the use of the PICOT framework can help in understanding the population, developing appropriate interventions, and comparing current cases with past ones. The report also references studies on medical supplies shortages and burnout among healthcare workers. The report aims to provide insights into the problems and potential solutions for improving nursing and medical practices, with a focus on patient care and policy implementation.

Running head: PROBLEMS DURING PRACTICING
Nursing Practice Problems versus Medical Practice Problems
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Introduction
Both the services of nursing practices and medical practices fail with problems.
However, both the practices have governing bodies to carry out a smooth nursing service but
fail to fulfill all the required demands.
Problems in Nursing Practice vs Medical Practice
These days nursing practices are facing challenges due to the shortage of registered
nurses. Shortages of Registered Nurses are due to over population of senior and skillful
nurses, which now states that, more than 50 percent of registered nurses are aged more than
50 which shows a serious crisis in the coming ten years.
On the other hand, medical practices by registered physicians face other issues
regarding policies and ethical guideline, dilemma during diagnosis, charts and record keeping
and fulfilling the patient demands.
The prime factor which impacts the delivery by a medical practitioner is the policies
under which they practice and the ethical guidelines. The terms often lead to delayed health
care which makes them inefficient in reaching out the demands of the patients, which
sometimes may lead to the death of the patients (Rachiotis et al., 2014).
Importance of Ensuring PICOT
PICOT stands for P: population, I: Intervention, C: Comparison, O: Outcome and T:
Time frame.
In case of nursing practice ensuring goal achievement for a patient is very necessary
and hence the formation of PICOT is necessary. PICOT helps in understanding the
population one needs to work with and thus helps in developing an intervention for them

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within a proper time frame. Moreover, it helps in comparing the present cases with those
which had happened in the past (Riva et al., 2012).
Conclusion
Therefor it can be concluded, that the frontline services which might show a positive
impact on patient health needs proper care in policy management and requires help regarding
their proper continuity.

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References
Rachiotis, G., Kourousis, C., Kamilaraki, M., Symvoulakis, E. K., Dounias, G., &
Hadjichristodoulou, C. (2014). Medical supplies shortages and burnout among Greek
health care workers during economic crisis: a pilot study. International journal of
medical sciences, 11(5), 442.
Riva, J. J., Malik, K. M., Burnie, S. J., Endicott, A. R., & Busse, J. W. (2012). What is your
research question? An introduction to the PICOT format for clinicians. The Journal of
the Canadian Chiropractic Association, 56(3), 167.