University Case Study: Analyzing Nursing Practices in Healthcare

This case study analyzes nursing practices in a mixed surgical ward, addressing challenges such as understaffing, lack of training, and medical negligence. The report identifies challenging situations, including the impact of high workloads on nurses and the consequences of poor communication and documentation. It presents the author's opinions, personal experiences, and insights gained during training, highlighting the importance of proper staffing, training, and documentation in ensuring patient safety and well-being. The case study references scholarly sources to support its discussion and concludes with recommendations for improved nursing practices and patient care. The assignment also provides a detailed analysis of the case study, identifying challenges, offering personal perspectives, and linking experiences to support the discussion, including real-life examples and evidence-based resources.

Case study

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY........................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION.....................................................................................................................................4
REFRENCES........................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION
The case study explains nursing practices essentials in medical facilities where there
are various wards under which overstaff problems, medical negligence and untrained staff
may highly impact patient’s treatments. The report explains how case analysed various
aspects, main problems under the scenario and the discomfort which needs to be understood
properly and resolved instantly (Smith & Liehr (2018).

MAIN BODY
Challenging situations:
 The ward is facing challenge due to understaffed employees and overwork load which
is creating high trouble on nurses and the pressure is making nurses unable to perform
their duties properly. The nurses due to less in number are facing problems to attend
each patient individually as there are around 12 patients under mixed surgical ward
which has increased the workload of nurses massively.
 There is lack of training and cooperation among management in nurses due to which
they are unable to deliver professional medical assistance and treatments to patients,
where the operations are not effectively held. Nurses and doctors do not have proper
communication between them which creates chaos among them to deliver operations
effectively. Many times attentive information shared by patients family members are
not documented properly which creates negligence and high downfall among the
goodwill and healthcare practices (Holloway & Galvin (2016).
Opinion on case study:
My opinion towards case study is that medical authorities have role to look upon the
staffing and training of nurses is highly planned so that any case of discomfort, chaos do not
come in front of patients who get admitted in hospitals for treatments. The documentation of
all details of medical history in patients should be properly recorded by doctors and nurses,
proper infrastructure should be provided for medical facilities as any negligence and
unprofessionalism by nurses may impact life of patients on variable patterns (Zaccagnini, &
Pechacek, (2019).
Self experience:
If i was working as nurse in the ward i would have faced discomfort and over pressure
due to under staff situation where i would be unable to deliver my responsibilities properly. If
my fellow colleagues are not able to coordinate with each other to deliver proper medical
treatments to patients, this would highly impact my professional duty too (Butts & Rich,
(2019).
Experiences:

I have experienced similar cases in my training period of nursing practices where in my ward
there were many patients operated under me and one more fellow colleague, where t we faced
the trouble of under staff. Also there was high negligence given to operational tools,
infrastructure of medical facilities where patients were facing high problems and we nurses
were not able to conduct our duties with full efficiency to up to the set benchmarks. One of
our patient family faced high problem due to chaos in management at hospital and it resulted
in death of one of the loved one in family where doctors dint documented all medical history
properly (Alligood, (2017)
CONCLUSION
The report concludes case of medical and nursing factors which impact patients well
being on long term and also the parameters onto which nurses should be given proper
training, where any negligence may highly impact upon patients life and safety.
REFRENCES
Books and journals
Alligood, M. R. (2017). Nursing theorists and their work-e-book. Elsevier Health Sciences.

Butts, J. B., & Rich, K. L. (2019). Nursing ethics. Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Holloway, I., & Galvin, K. (2016). Qualitative research in nursing and healthcare. John
Wiley & Sons.
Smith, M. J., & Liehr, P. R. (Eds.). (2018). Middle range theory for nursing. Springer
Publishing Company.
Zaccagnini, M., & Pechacek, J. M. (2019). The doctor of nursing practice essentials: A new
model for advanced practice nursing. Jones & Bartlett Learning.