Overloading nurses with patient in one shift is not good because it will lead to safety errors, exhaustion and miscommunication. Nuances are low acuity, short staff, and insufficient funds.
Every day we hear about medication error stories that lead to patient life loss or disability , in best cases no harm done. Yet one of the nurses that worked so hard that day made a mistake and gave the wrong medication to the wrong patient , or gave the wrong dose to the right patient. The policy to give drugs is to check for the five safety points. The right patient , the right time, the right drug, the right dose , the right rout. The it follows by the right documentation. Every nurse knows how to do her job , and those checks are run automatically in the mind of every nurse. But we are human and when a nurse is tired then the mind can’t do to much , so some times we tend to skip some checks due to urgent patient need , axhustion , tired , and there it goes a medication error, that would cause the patient his life and nurse her career.
We live in a fast pace life, every thing need to be fast , the faster the patient get better that faster they leave and the faster we get another patient to make more money that is how facilities do their job. All about more patient to get …show more content…
It also states “ The optimal nurse staffing takes into account that multi- factorial nature of providing patient care in a complex environment and supports that nurse in the delivery of ethical, quality care at every proactive level and in all setting. “ huge decrease in nursing budget, accompanied by the challenges presented by the increasing nursing shortage is leading to fewer nurses working longer hours and caring for sicker patient. This situation leads to compromises care and can lead to an environment that drives nurses a way from their