Nursing Shortage: Its Effect on Patient Outcome In today's environment of rising costs in the health care industry, one of the first casualties in many hospitals is the level of RN staffing. In fact, across the country, hospital RNs are increasingly forced to work in an atmosphere in which they are understaffed, overworked, and charged with responsibilities wholly unrelated to direct patient care. This is a phenomenon illustrated in alarming detail

Picot Statement P: Nurses and Nursing. Nursing leadership and patient outcome Review of studies and literature that examine the association and relationship between nursing leadership practices and patient outcomes. O: Evidence suggests relationships between positive relational leadership styles and higher patient satisfaction and lower patient mortality, medication errors, sentinel events, and hospital-acquired infections. Over three months Healthcare faces an economic downturn, stressful work environments, upcoming retirements of leaders and projected workforce shortages, implementing strategies to ensure

Nursing Shortage on Patient Outcomes The objective of this study is to examine the effects of nursing shortage on the outcomes of patients. Towards this end, this study will conduct a review of the literature in this area of inquiry. There is a severe shortage of nursing in today's healthcare workforce. This impacts the outcomes of patients in terms of their healthcare and their overall health. According to the 'Nursing World'

Patient Safety Through Medication Reconciliation The adoption of the Affordable Healthcare Act has assisted an increasing number of Americans to have access to health insurance. Despite the benefits associated with the new law, the quality of health delivery is still low because of the issue such as medication errors. The poster recommends an implementation of medical reconciliation to improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United States. The method of

The author also explains that the data stored in the system can be used to help public health officials identify medical issues facing the community as well as track various trends from the community and public health perspectives. Article Relevance (How does this article relate to you as doctor?) As a physician, I recognize that my time will be in very short supply. Therefore, any system or resource capable of saving time

Evidence Based Practice University of Illinois Evidence Based Medicine Resources: Lessons Learned From the search resources I learned that in evidence based medicine, patient values comprising of their unique concerns, preferences, and expectations introduced to the clinical encounter ought to be integrated in determining the ideal care for patient. This integration will guarantee that the individual patient’s clinical state, the clinical setting and best patient outcome prevail in ideal decisions on optimal