Nurse Staffing Effect

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Nurse Staffing is one of the key determinants of quality of care, in the article “ The Effect of Nurse Staffing on Quality of Care”, Crystal J. Martin (2015) reviews the effects of nurse staffing on quality of care. According to the research, a correlation was found between poor staffing level and poor quality of care and patient dissatisfaction. Poor nurse staffing affects patients, and their peers, nursing staff and the organization. Inadequate nursing staff can lead to consequences such as adverse patient outcomes, burnout, job dissatisfaction, fatigue absenteeism, sleep disturbance and so on. Insufficient nurse staffing can lead to errors due to accumulated worked hours; working longer hours lead to fatigue, which in turn put staff