Effects Of Fatigue On Nurses And Patient Safety

A Critique of the Literature Effects of Nursing Rounds: on patients’ Call Light Use, Satisfaction and Safety. Introduction: The findings of this article will critically review the methods of research, population, systems and data used to obtain results regarding this study. This evaluation of the outcome would determine whether or not there was a need to change…

Many nurses face the issue of understaffing and having too much of a workload during one shift. When a unit is understaffed not only do the nurses get burnt out, but the patients also don’t receive the care they deserve. The nurse-patient ratio is an aspect that gets overlooked in many facilities that could lead to possible devastating errors. Nurse- patient ratio issues have been a widely studied topic and recently new changes have been made to improve the problem. Identifying and maintaining…

one of the most important areas in the healthcare field is our nurses, yet everyday many are subjected to unfair working conditions such as excessive working hours, low wages, and lack of support from within an organization. This ultimately results in many of those in the nursing field seeking employment in other organizations, or switching career fields all together. This can result in a lack of nurses, which not only puts the patient at risk, it can also reflect negatively on an organization as…

about a critical patient safety hazard known as “alarm fatigue”. Alarm fatigue occurs when caregivers are desensitized by the frequent sounding of competing alarms from medical equipment, and other sources in a healthcare setting. Clinical alarms can be unintentionally overlooked as background noise, and drown out actionable warning signs that require vital clinical interventions. These alarm safety issues have led to unfavorable and, at times, even fatal patient outcomes. Alarm fatigue is a complex…

This study focuses on the issue of nursing staffing and its effects on the outcomes of the patients. To begin with, the tem nursing staffing will be defined and followed by a discussion of nursing staffing in relation to the nurses themselves. Nursing staffing levels and their effects on the patient outcomes will also be discussed with regards to morbidity and mortality besides other indicators of patient outcomes, the impact of nursing staffing levels to quality of care as well as an overview of…

Hospitalized patients are often hooked up to monitoring devices such as heart monitors, which monitor the electric activity of the heart, or connected to a physiological monitor so their vital signs are constantly being measured. These monitors are intended to continuously assess the patients’ status, and alarm if the patients’ status drops below what is considered normal. The increased use of monitoring devices has created a new phenomenon known as alarm fatigue. According to the ECRI institute…

studies examining the effects patient-to-nurse ratios have on adverse outcomes, mortality rates, and failure-to-rescue rates of patients and on job dissatisfaction and burnout experiences of nurses. Aiken, Sloane, Sochalski, and Silber (2002) performed a study which showed that each additional patient per nurse increased patient mortality within 30 days of admission by 7% and increased failure-to-rescue by 7% as well. This same study also showed that each additional patient per nurse resulted in a 23%…

Medication Errors Effect on Patient Safety According to Jones and Treiber (2010), more than 1.5 million people are touched by medication errors every year. Additionally, medication error is responsible for 7000 deaths in the U.S. each year (Haw, Stubbs, & Dickens, 2014). Medication error is defined as “any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events…

Nurse Staffing Issues Relation to Patient Safety Susan Wilson Foundations of Nursing April 13, 2016 Nurse Staffing Issues Relation to Patient Safety Introduction: Patient safety is one of the top priorities for health care organizations. Numerous conversations and evidence bases research have been conducted, with the aim of pinpointing factors that can be controlled to improve and preserve patient safety. This essay will explore one area that health organizations can control…

and one of the important areas is the healthcare field are our nurses, yet everyday many are subjected to unfair working conditions such as excessive working hours, low wages, and lack of support from within an organization. This ultimately results in many of those in the nursing field seeking employment at other organizations, or switching career fields all together. This can result in a lack of nurses, which not only puts the patients at risk, it can also reflect negatively on an organization as…