Issues Related To Low Number Of Nurses In Healthcare Facilities (Coursework Sample)

Interprofessional Primary Response 2
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Interprofessional Primary Response 2
The selected projected aims at solving the issue associated with lower nurses to patient ratios in the healthcare facility. Suggestions I can offer is that the initiatives of the project need to be taken into strict consideration in the health facility. The executive board should work towards employing more nurses to effectively adopt the fundamentals of the project. My advice for successively initiating the teaching plan is that the new nurses should be trained adequately to attain professional skills in their line of work. The problem-solving tips I may lend in efficiently implementing the teaching plan include identification of the problem faced in the health facility due to lower nurses to patients’ ratio, working towards solving this problem through the adoption of my teaching plan as an effective solution and evaluating the outcome. The presentation is on-target basing on the information in the journal as it addresses the current situation of enabling nurses to ambulate on patients in two shifts thus offering quality healthcare services. Evidence is posted for review indicating the recordings taken during my interdisciplinary rounds. My evaluation on the project is that nurses have been making tremendous efforts in getting early physical therapies for the patients and assisting them to get out of bed. The project revisions made are sound as they implement the effective measures to be taken in ensuring the services offered by nurses are efficient through increasing the ratio of nurses to patients in the healthcare facility.
The resources I can suggest to aid in the completion of the project are two books, ‘Nurse–Patient Ratios as a Patient Safety Strategy: A Systematic Review’ and ‘Effect of Nurse-to-Patient Staffing Ratios on Patient Morbidity and Mortality’ which provide the necessary literature to carry out the initiatives of the project. The resources to aid in completion of the project are especially important as they convey the strategies on how the ratio of nurses to patients may be increased in healthcare facilities. The relevan...