Comparative Study between Government and pvt hospitals

The image of the nursing profession is on the rise due to development in political, environmental, cultural, and social areas. This involves addition of women into the profession of nursing to instill the needed care to patients. The implementation of technology and education in relation to the nursing profession proves to be effective and efficient in the current health condition, in the nation. Education helps to prepare nurses for their roles and expectations. This allows them to execute their roles and responsibilities perfectly thus the highly trusted health professional group. Extensive research and clinical approaches also act as components to indicate the strides towards development in relation to the nursing profession. Research actions enable nurses to determine the source of their previous problems thus opportunity to revive themselves. This provides appropriate platform for development of the profession (Cherry & Jacob, 2011).

This issue is important to address because having an increased workload can have detrimental issues such as mental frustration and physical exhaustion. The conclusion of this study is that it calls for action to take place in the health care system. It is important to investigate these problems, so there can be modifications made by management to the health care systems to overall decrease the nursing shortage.

Thus, sufficient numbers of nurse to patient ratio are most likely to intercept and prevent errors (Mrayyan & Hamaideh, 2014). On top of this there is a great impact on the existing nurses as they are burden with more work, stress, fatigue, and overloaded. These are all the contributing factors that would lead to job dissatisfactions. The outcome of shortage of nurses will cause the demand of nurses outweigh the supplies. The researcher believes that, this study would give a helping hand to hospital organization and the managers to have a better insight in directing their resources to keep the workforce more stable after understanding and acknowledging the positive and negative effect of nurse retention.

Working in health care is connected with a higher degree of stress than working in other professions. Nursing includes both non-specific stress and specific factors. Many hospital are experiencing increase patient workload. Changing Registered Nurse (RN) to patient ratios are affecting both nurses' job satisfaction and patient satisfaction alike. As healthcare reform pressures hospitals to cut costs and nursing shortage continues, increased patient loads are becoming a stressor in the acute care setting. RNs suffer as they feel the stress of needing to be in multiple places at one time, an unrealistic goal, while patients suffer as they see their primary nurse less often as desired, usually during times of medication or treatment administration.

Healthcare nursing as a profession comprises of a big and various groups of people who have gone through different levels of trainings and education in the United States. This has created a great impact in the US in the sense that not all nurses have had to meet the qualifications needed so as to work in the hospitals. Therefore the few who have managed to work in those hospitals are the ones who are believed to have met the demand of being degree holders. Since this educational level that is met by only few nurses, it has created the issue of shortage of nurses in the hospital and in the long run they work for more hours. Since the Second World War, many hospitals in America have been forced to cope with recurring shortage of nursing.

Many people think that nursing is a field where jobs are always there. While this is true, right now it seems like there it a “shortage” of nurses. Is there a shortage of nurses? What caused the shortage? Does the shortage have any effects on the nurses? As I have been thinking about pursuing a career in nursing, these questions are something I have been wondering myself. Throughout this paper, I intend to discover and address all the reasons behind the shortage, and the effects on the nurses themselves.

According to JAMA , a study report describe nurses as being emotionally exhausted and unsatisfied with their time & work quality as they work scheduled is overloaded with more patient care; Dr. Linda Aiken found that “failure to retain nurses contributes to avoidable patient deaths”(JAMA,2002). Another impact of the nurse shortage affecting patient’s quality of care is: the high rate of turnover and opening positions. In 2007 AJN, Dr. Kovner found that 37% of the nurses were thinking of alternate jobs positions. A national poll of nurse recruiter found 16.1% of vacancy rate and 13.1% of turnover (Hodes Group, 2005). The nursing shortage have baffled experts to recognize the gaps by addressing the need of more training, increase resources, work load of staff-patient ratio and quality of care (Sultz & Young,2014).

“The new nursing shortage” written by Ramachandran is about the lack of nurses in hospitals and other health settings. This is a major concern because it produces nurses to work tirelessly which cause nurses to become fatigue and drain all their energy. Nurses that become fatigue can result in injury. This newspaper article can help me with my essay because it talks about how there are not enough nurses for patient needs, which can be the root for injury. Ramachandran says (2014) “The recent recession made it more difficult for entry-level nurses to find work, as more experienced nurses put off retirement and stayed in the job force. So now there's a nurse shortage – and it's happening all over the world” (para.2). This is tragic and it’s causing

In recent years, there has been increasing pressure on nurses in hospitals due to the fact there is no enough nurses in the US public and private hospitals. The causes that drove nurses away in the health industry are a lot. The low payment, the hard work condition, and the increasing complex health technology are some examples of these causes. This report has discussed the problem in details and how it is growing and wild spreading around the world. The report also has listed some of the reasons to this problem which many researches and studies have concluded. Finally, the report provides the most effective solutions

Nurse staffing shortage levels are altered by a variety of internal factors. To reduce unsafe workload adequate and establish nurse’s ratios is essential for patient care and their safety. As most of the time nurses often need to work shifts that surpassing twelve hours under stressful conditions which can produce negative effects. Even staff ratios are ignored and inadequately set on hospital floor. Nurses frequently work night shift with 10 patients and day shifts 8. In this number of patients not include how critical patient are or how much care each individual patient needs. Nursing aides who supposed to provide biggest support to nurses have heavy work load and not always have time to complete all schedule duties on the floor with patients. Working extra hours to meet all the administrative expectations with short staffed rise job dissatisfaction and injuries. For example, on Med-Surgical units to work is more hectic for nurses than in maternity units, most of the nurses acquire experience and then transfer to other units with less patient ratios. The answer is

Over the past years, the demand for nurses has increased due to the changes in patient demographics, and the rising number of retiring nurses. This creates a nursing shortage, in which the need for registered nurses surpasses the number of nurses. There are many consequences that occur with a nursing shortage; however, one of the biggest reoccurring problems is burnout in nurses. Burnout is defined as “a mental or physical energy depletion after a period of chronic, unrelieved job-related stress” (Toh, Ang, Devi, 2012, 127). One study discovered the prevalence of burnout from five different countries ranged from 32% to 54% (Shamli, Shahriari, Babaii, Abbasinia, 2015, 1). Burnout causes nurses to leave their profession prematurely due to job dissatisfaction. The purpose of this paper is to explore the causes and consequences of burnout, and its impact on future nurses.

An increased workload for nurses can negatively affect them, their patients and the organizations they work for. Mojgan Khademi, Easa Mohammadi,

World Health Organisation [WHO] (2009) indicates the profession of nurse is a key component and major contributor to the global healthcare workforce. However, nursing worldwide has significant disparities, notably apparent between developed and developing countries. Although there are signs of improvement, much needs to be done to globalise the standards of nursing. There is a substantial difference in the profession of nurse in Australia compared to India and the issues encountered (Charles et al., 2014). In modern society the social stigmata and issue of equality in regard to the profession of nurse in India remains visibly evident (Nair, 2012). Exposure to poor workplace conditions impact job satisfaction and fuel the problem of skilled nurse shortages and nurse migration (Timmons, 2014). The importance of high quality education is challenging when faced with below average resources and unqualified teaching faculty (Evans, Razia, & Cook, 2013). With The growth of nursing in India is significantly hindered due to factors of social status, equality and education.

Registered nurses strive to achieve success through long work hours and sacrifices that create lifestyles filled with strain to the person physical and psychological states, according to Purdy, Spence, Finegan, Kerr, & Olivera (2010) study. Nurses are leaving clinical practice due to fatigue, increased shift length, and lack of job satisfaction (MacKusick, & Minick, 2010; Cimiotti, Aiken, Sloane, & Wu, 2012; Purdy, Spence, Finegan, Kerr, & Olivera, 2010).

Nurses if optimally utilized in the health care system can have a great impact in the health outcomes of the population as well as on a larger note in bringing down the cost of health care in a system. However nursing remains a largely unexplored area when it comes to its actual utilization in India. The scenario remains largely the same, perhaps marginally better when it comes to the public health care sector in Kerala. There is a dire need to focus more on the comprehensive utilization of