Technical English 310: Critical Analysis of Nursing Staffing Issues

This report provides a critical analysis of nursing staffing issues, focusing on the impact of staff shortages on healthcare. It examines three research articles, exploring the challenges faced by nurses and the importance of adequate staffing levels. The analysis covers topics such as nurse burnout, violence in the workplace, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing practices. The paper highlights the importance of effective staffing ratios, particularly in emergency departments, and references the American Nursing Association and the World Health Organization to emphasize the global significance of this issue. The report concludes that a supportive working environment is essential to reduce the risks associated with staff shortages, ensuring effective patient care and the overall management of hospitals. This analysis underscores the need for strategies to address nurse staffing shortages and improve healthcare outcomes.

Critical Analysis
Ifeoma Quarshie
Professor Kaydee Phillips
Nightingale College
Technical English 310 Week 11
March 3rd, 2020

Introduction
The nursing staffing ratio is a situation related to make compulsory availability of adequate
nursing staff at the shift in the hospital. An increased demand for registered nurses in the
sector of health care is raising issues to manage the effective supply of the nurses. This
research paper reflects article analysis and literature review to analyze the impact of the
nursing staff shortage and recommendations suggested as essential to manage the effective
nursing staff and patient ratio in a hospital.
Article Analysis
According to Harrington and others, nurses engaged in the patient healthcare and nursing
department need help from the nurses, hospital administration is required to maintain 8 hours
shift for the nurse, and nursing care is essential to available for 24 hours. Hence, night-shift
and rotational shift cause issues to nursing practice and this led job dissatisfaction well. This
article identifies that the shortage of nursing is a global issue. The article used the comparison
of six countries managing the staffing practices to provide the best health care in the country
hoe their legal and ethical concerns play an effective contribution to help staffing ratios
(Harrington, Schnelle, McGregor, & Simmons, 2016).
According to Juraschek and others, Registered nurses (RNs) play a serious role in health care
services and delivery. Increasing population and increased number of patients in the hospital
and nursing staff there is a risk of poor staff management, and this poor staff management is
possible to lead many challenges as poor health care services and delayed services,
sometimes delay in the nursing care cause a high risk to patient's health and led many other
issues. This article effectively represents the points of concern and represents the effective
understanding of the nursing shortage negative impact and suggests effective Increased

efforts to understand shortage dynamics are warranted and policies to these issues. This
article represents that the medical sector has no minimum staffing level that infects high staff
availability is very profitable to manage an active supply of services (Juraschek, Zhang,
Ranganathan, & Lin, 2019).
According to Wise and others, Australian nursing Unions apply mandatory implication of
staffing ratio in the nursing and healthcare services. Establishing ratios for an intensive care
department is more belligerent than for general wards. This research aimed to guess normal
employment levels, skill mix and patient presentations in all New South Wales (NSW)
Emergency Departments (EDs). Based on cross-sectional study and literature reviews the
article represent that effective staffing has many issues and challenges but it is a liability of
hospital administration especially in the emergency department (Wise, Fry, Duffield, Roche,
& Buchanan, 2015).
Many factors are associated with the nursing shortage as assisted in this article, Nurse
Burnout it a situation where employed nurses are not assuring about their carrier, and after a
while, they comprehend that nursing is not a suitable profession for them. Violence and
discrimination in the job practices in the health care sector are associated with the nursing
staff shortage.
These articles have effectively implemented strategies of development in the case of nursing
staff and their shortage issue, as nurses are already facing the issues associated with patients
handle in any kind of job challenge, discrimination and other kinds of improper act can lead
demotivation for the profession. This also leads to issues in case of an emergency. Presently
nurses are only sourcing to make the healthcare department effectively engaged, effective
support from patients and nursing staff along with the organizations can make their practices

effective. If they face challenges, from the staff and their practices than this can lead to many
issues to their life and can affect the entire management of a hospital.
Conclusion
This research paper is based on an article analysis of three research articles; these articles are
having an effective research strategy. They effectively discuss issue raising the issues of
nurses shortage and challenges raised due to these in the nursing, these research papers reflect
that nurses are important in health care practices during an emergency and in their regular
practice as well. According to the American Nursing Association, nursing is a highly
profitable profession for the development in the future. According to the World Health
Statistics Report, there are about 29 million nurses and midwives in the world, and it has a
high growth possibility in the future. Hence this research paper concludes that nurse is
essential to have an effective working environment to reduce the risk of staff shortage. Nurse
staffing issues are very critical situations, this is possible to arise during an emergency, as in
the present time impact of COVID 19 Coronavirus in the entire world is significantly
affecting the nursing practices. World Health Organization has declared it as a case of an
international emergency.

Bibliography
Harrington, C., Schnelle, J. F., McGregor, M., & Simmons, S. F. (2016). Article
Commentary: The need for higher minimum staffing standards in US nursing homes.
Health services insights, HSI-S38994.
Juraschek, S. P., Zhang, X., Ranganathan, V., & Lin, V. W. (2019). Republished: United
States Registered Nurse Workforce Report Card and Shortage Forecast. American
Journal of Medical Quality, 473-481.
Wise, S., Fry, M., Duffield, C., Roche, M., & Buchanan, J. (2015). Ratios and nurse staffing:
The vexed case of emergency departments. Australasian Emergency Nursing Journal,
49-55.