Schiller, and Saili Raje. Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified critical issues within the nursing profession, such as burnout, safety concerns, and compensation disparities, leading to an alarming attrition rate. This paper, focusing on UNC Health, employs statistical analyses and survey data to explore these challenges and the disproportionate impact on less experienced nurses, who represent a significant portion of the workforce leaving. To combat these issues, we propose a targeted…
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Journal Week 12: Nurse Compassion Fatigue vs. Nurse Burnout May is the nurse manager on the metabolic unit. She has obtained her BSN degree from Saint Mary’s College and is currently enrolled in graduate school for her public health nurse administrator degree. I asked May questions in regards to possible leadership and management issues that she personally faced on the detox/metabolic unit. She stated that a nurse who she went to school with six years ago had one occurrence report that pushed her…
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Battling Compassion Burnout Begins Within the Mind Bea A. Pasamba, Department of Nursing, California State University, Bakersfield Med/Surg (Theory) NURS 2130-01 Professor Krystal J. Ball MSN/ED, RN, CCRN-K March 3, 2024. Battling Compassion Burnout Begins Within the Mind: Nurses’ overall physical and mental health is greatly affected by the unrealistic workloads and expectations set on them. Consequently, this toll leads to compassion burnout and lower quality of care for patients. Compassion…
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the student, a Staff Nurse on the hospice ward, has observed a general increase in ‘stress’ levels of the ward staff. Rising levels of exhaustion and staff frustration are apparent, along with a general feeling of ‘no longer feeling valued’. The student has observed, over time, signs of apathy in colleagues’ daily behaviour. Nursing ranks highly in occupations to experience stress according to the Health and Safety Executive (2005). A postal survey to 6000 general nurses, undertaken by the Royal…
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the relationship between nursing fatigue and the quality of patient care. As frontline providers of care, nurses face a multitude of challenges that can impact both their well-being and the quality of healthcare services they deliver. This paper gains insights from various identified studies. By examining existing research, we seek to understand the impact of fatigue on nursing professionals and its potential implications for patient outcomes and healthcare quality. Nurse Fatigue and Patient Care…
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Familiarity and understanding of the emotional burdens and stresses facing today’s nurses is precarious for illuminating how work stressors transmute into burnout and turnover. In 2002, the Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipated that the United States would be undersized 800,000 registered nurses of the nationalized necessity by year 2020. Recently, this figure has amplified to over one million registered nurses short of the need by 2012 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2010). There are numerous essentially…
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PROVIDING QUALITY CARE Nurse staffing, quality of nursing care and nurse job outcomes in intensive care units Sung-Hyun Cho, Kyung Ja June, Yun Mi Kim, Yong Ae Cho, Cheong Suk Yoo, Sung-Cheol Yun and Young Hee Sung Aim. To examine the relationship between nurse staffing and nurse-rated quality of nursing care and job outcomes. Background. Nurse staffing has been reported to influence patient and nurse outcomes. Design. A cross-sectional study with a survey conducted August–October 2007. Methods…
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This article explores ways that the nursing staff can promote good health from a family’s point of view. Parents often have mixed emotions while their child is in the hospital and are most likely concerned of what is going to happen. The children are also affected while being in the hospital because they feel shaky, worried, or scared because of the pain. Therefore, reinforcing parenthood, looking after the child’s welfare, sharing emotional burden, supporting everyday coping, and creating confidential…
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the nursing profession is patient care. The knowledge, skills and intensive training that nursing students acquire while completing the rigorous curriculum of nursing school equips them with the necessary tools to provide optimum patient care. To make an impact on patient care, we all must begin with dialogue. It is important to understand that patient care is a collective effort. Sparking conversations and exchanging concepts with colleagues creates a space for improvements within the nursing profession…
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Nursing Safety: Adequate Nurse to Patient Ratio Jillian Benson Baker University School of Nursing One of the primary tenets of medicine is "first, do no harm". Patients put their trust in doctors and nurses when they are most vulnerable and are in need of care. Yet, what does a patient initially experience at the beginning of a hospital stay? Nurses who appear to be responsible for caring for large numbers of patients and a scarcity of doctors. Patients quickly realize that nurses…
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