Give one example of a data collection method used in writing this paper below. What variable was this method used to measure?
Nurse Staffing Ratio
PICOT Que: In Patients Requiring Nursing Care and Attention, How Does Nurse Staffing Ratio Influence Patient Recovery Over Patient Mortality?
The safe staffing of nursing has been proven overtime to improve on the quality of the health care services rendered by nurses to their patients. Every registered nurse can attest to the ever present concerns over staffing issues. The ratio of nurse staffing not only deals with the safety of the patients but also with the nurses. It is very important in both clinical and non-clinical departments. This paper will review literature by (Shekelle, 2013) and (West, et al., 2014) who have done extensive research studies when it comes to nurse staffing ratio, how it affects patient recovery over mortality.
There are recent studies that have been done in order to support staffing models that improve on the ratio of nurses to patients. In the article by (Shekelle, 2013), 232 342 surgical patients in Pennsylvania from different hospitals were included in the study. The study highlighted that of the 232 342 surgical patients, 4 535 died within 30 days of being discharged. The death of this 2% indicates that there was a problem in the after care of the patients. Investigations into this matter revealed that the difference between a 4:1 and 8:1 patient is to nurse ratio may have been a major factor in the death of these patients. As a result, the article went on discuss the role played by nurse-patient ratios.
There is a need for further research to be done in order to find means to achieve a nurse staffing ratio that will lead to high quality. In answering this question, it is also necessary to take into consideration the fact that having more nurse staff might lead to confusion and actually down grade the care rendered to the patient.
In their article Nurse Staffing, Medical Staffing and Mortality in Intensive Care: An Observational Study, scholars (West, et al., 2014) study whether the size of hospital staff (nurses, doctors and support staff) has an impact on the survival chances of critically ill patients both in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and in the hospital. Their results indicate that higher number of nurses per bed are associated with higher survival rates. Furthermore, a separate analysis of in-unit and in-hospital survival showed that the clinical workforce in ICU has a very high impact on ICU mortality compared to hospital mortality.
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