TITLE: NURSE STAFFING AND QUALITY SERVICE
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INTRODUCTION
Nurse staffing is the placement of qualified nurses in health facilities so that they can work together with doctors to deliver quality health services to the community. Hospitals with high nurse staffing levels are much likely to have good patient outcomes and satisfaction no matter the patient turn out. Nurse staffing focuses on recruiting and keeping qualified nurses in a hospital so that handling of patients becomes easy and focused on quality service to the public. It enhances the identification of individuals that are most likely to work in certain areas of the health sector and also helps to enhance the diversity of nurses by matching candidates and the communities they will provide health services to. Salary and benefits are the factors that motivate qualified nurses to work consistently in a health facility because with good remuneration, nurses are able to further their education which further improves their profession and level of knowledge in their field of operation (Sales, A. 2015).
Low nurse staffing results in higher risks of disease infections particularly the transmittable diseases due to lack of the urgency of treatment because the health facility has less nurses with a high number of patients. Nurse shortage is caused by the lack of enough registered nurses that are allowed to practice, low salary offers, poor training that leads to low confidence of practice, lack of organizational knowhow that is caused by lack of experience in patient handling. The importance of appropriate nurse staffing is the patient outcome and the ability to handle the patient turnover at a particular health facility within the required time. Low nurse staffing means that a health facility is less likely to handle a certain number of patients and this leads to adverse patient