Barrier to Resolution the greatest barrier to moving away from overtime shifts is that many nurses like and expect this schedule, as it is the norm in many institutions (Geiger-Brown & Trinkoff, 2010). No hospital want their nurses to work exhausted, sick and give low quality of care. However, even the hospital that no mandatory overtime they will allow nurses to “self- schedule” in a way that substantially increase fatigue risk or may ask nurses to accept “on call” or mandate overtime to cover open shifts so as not to use expensive supplemental staffing (Geiger-Brown & Trinkoff, 2010). Eventhough, some states regulate the use of mandatory overtime. Some nurses is not aware of it or use the voluntary overtime the same as mandatory overtime. The willingness of nurses to work longer hours is one main concern on how hospital nurse administrators and executives will maintain nurses satisfaction retention and recruitment and patient outcomes while preventing the use of mandatory overtime. Some nurses have misconception that if they refuse to work they are scared to loss the job In united states, not every states have restriction to mandatory overtime because it is a complex issue to be solved. Or we can say the failure of government to pass a law that will help healthcare providers to address the issues of mandatory overtime. According to experts at the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health, there has been little research into the ways in which overtime by health care providers compromises patient and staff safety.
Short Staffing is the reason why nurses needs to do overtime is it because of the nursing shortage? or failure of hospital in terms of financial, management and leadership?
Resolution to the issue
One of the solution to reduced mandatory overtime is that nurses must be aware on their capabilities or limitations to give a quality