¶ … nursing staffing is very critical to patient well-being and safety. However, inadequate nurse staffing can influence the medication errors, rates of heart attacks, and respiration infections, which can consequently lead to mortality rates. In other words, a nurse workload can lead to 7% risk of patient's death, and increase of staff workload can reduce nurses' morale, staff turnover and absenteeism. In the United States, nurse staffing has become a major concern for the quality of care and patient safety, and a lower staff rates can have adverse effect on patients' outcomes, which consequently lower staff satisfaction.
Objective of this paper is to propose a nursing matrix turnover that will be employed to improve the nurse satisfaction, nurse retention, and nurse turnover.
Methods
The proposal uses different methods to identify the strategy that will be employed for the new staffing matrix to improve the hourly rounds to reduce patients' falls, call light use, pressure ulcers, which will consequently enhance nurse and patients' satisfactions within the healthcare environment. (Al-Abri, & Amina Al-Balushi 2014).
The survey will collect data on the:
Staff attitudes and their contributions to job satisfaction or dissatisfaction before and after initiating the changes.
turnover rates before or after the initiating of change.
Compare patient's discharge surveys before the change initiation and after the change's initiation.
First, the study will use the survey method to collect data on staff attitudes that can contribute to the job satisfaction or dissatisfaction before or after initiating a change. A survey research refers to the collection of information or data from sample individuals. The proposal will use the survey to collect data because it is an effective and efficient strategy to collect data from a broad spectrum of staff nurses. One of the benefits of survey method in carrying out the evaluation plan is that it can assist in enhancing a greater understanding the reason for job satisfaction or dissatisfaction among nursing staff for hourly rounds to reduce falls and call light use.
One of the benefits of the Likert scale is that it is the universal technique for a data collection. Moreover, the response can be easily quantified by the researcher, and assists in enhancing the graphic presentations. More importantly, the Likert scale assists participants to respond with a degree of agreement. Additionally, the likert scaling is efficient, quick and inexpensive strategy to collect data.
The format of 5-level Likert scale includes:
Strongly disagree
Disagree
Neither agree nor disagree
Agree
Strongly agree
The numerical value is assigned to each scale to assist in the quantification of the results as being revealed below:
(1)Strongly disagree, (2) Disagree, (3) Neither agree nor disagree, (4) Agree, (5) Strongly agree. The scale will assist in the quantification of the results, and the format will assist in presenting the results in percentages and graphical format.
Variables
The variables that will be used to evaluate the project outcomes are as follows:
1. Staff Perceptions and attitudes.
2. Patients perceptions and attitudes
3. Rate of nursing turnover.
The variable is anything that the researcher intends to measure. Staff perception and attitudes about the hourly nursing rounding are very critical to design the new staffing matrix. The strategy will assist the healthcare management to design an appropriate nursing staff to reduce staff turnover, improve the staff satisfaction, which will consequently assist in enhancing the overall healthcare delivery. The study will also measure patients' perception about the nursing rounding because the variable will assist in enhancing a greater understanding how the nursing rounding assist in reducing patients falls, and pressure ulcers.
Strategy to Educate the Project Participants
Different strategies will be used to educate the project participants. First, the study will use both the PowerPoint slides and other teaching materials…
