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Safe Staffing
Many people lament the fact that hospitals are often profit-based and/or they are religiously oriented in nature. As it relates to the former of those two, profit-based hospitals and other disseminators of medical services are assailed for planning or actually going through with the cutting of staff on any given shift including doctors, nurses and even support staff. While keeping staff at a non-bloated level is a wise idea, erring on the side of keeping staff too low can lead to chaos if not danger due to patients not receiving the proper amount and quality of medical care from nurses and/or doctors and remaining aware of the political currents regarding the same is imperative and non-optional given the current climate relating to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and similar regulations and requirements.
Analysis
The profits and performance of the medical sector, both public and private, has been a front-page concern of the media as well as an important issue in the minds of voters and industry advocates...
This has manifested in a number of ways but has been at a fever pitch since at least the 1960's when the "War and Poverty" as well as the creation of Medicare both occurred. In the more recent past, there has been the push by Hillary Clinton during her husband's administration and the recent political fracas both before and after the passage of the aforementioned Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise referred to as ObamaCare. The bill was passed nearly four years ago but is still unpopular with voters and sways the behaviors and actions of both Democrats and Republicans. Public and private sector hospitals as well as other medically-oriented organizations like health care insurance groups are no different with one example being Aetna CEO speaking in favor and disfavor of the legislation and how it has unrolled (Belvedere, 2014).
As it relates to the political sphere and the topic of safe staffing, hospitals get it from both ends as shareholders except a lean and mean staffing level while politicians and industry advocates/lobbyists demand a staffing level that ensures patient safety and quality care all at the same time. Further complicating the matter is that there are projected or current shortages of doctors and nurses (AACN, 2014). Meaning, the level of staffing being on the low side could…
References
AACN. (2014, January 30). Nursing Shortage. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. Retrieved January 30, 2014, from http://www.aacn.nche.edu/media-relations/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage
Aetna. (2014, February 1). The Facts About RisingHealth Care Costs. The Facts About Rising Health Care Costs. Retrieved February 1, 2014, from http://www.aetna.com/health-reform-connection/aetnas-vision/facts-about-costs.html
Belvedere, M. (2014, January 22). Aetna could be forced out of Obamacare: CEO. CNBC.com. Retrieved February 2, 2014, from http://www.cnbc.com/id/101354183
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