How Did We Get Here?
What is Anxiety?
Better wash your hands! Studies show that a patient's risk for this is increased by 15% when a unit is understaffed.
What is Infection (HAI)?
Cha-Ching! 64% of nurses say that this would help lessen the nursing shortage.
What is Better Pay/Incentives?
This is causing nurses to leave to bedside. They feel they are not being compensated for their hard work.
What is Insufficient Pay?
To prevent this from happening, you better double and triple check your rights of administration.
What are Medication Errors.
1:4 is way better than 1:8 don't you think? Hospitals lessen burnout by keeping these within a safe range.
Nurses claim that with working more hours during the shortage. Their lives have become more focused on work and less focused on family and self-care. Throwing this kind of balance out the window.
What is work-life balance?
The beat isn't the only thing dropping around here. It has been proven that in understaffed units, patients have a 10% greater chance of this.
What is Falling?
Security onsite, identifying behaviors, and De-escalation techniques are all ways to promote safety and reduce incidents of this.
What is Nurse Abuse/Workplace Violence?
Is it getting HOT in here? The added work and stress of being understaffed is causing this.
What is Nurse Burnout?
0/10 would not recommend! Is what patients are saying on understaffed units. This is showing a decrease in this.
What is Patient Satisfaction?
By improving funding to these institutions, they can recruit/retain more teaching faculty.
What are Nursing Schools?