Short Staffing

This report provides the brief overview regarding the issue related to short staffing. The aim of this study is to provide an insight to the policy maker on the issue of short staffing, its consequences and its management. Currently, several countries are having an issue of insufficient nursing staff. The problem has risen because of wide career option and high cost rate of nursing study. If the problem of short staffing continues like this then by 2025, the shortage of nursing will be doubled comparing to the shortage of nursing in 1960s. On the other hand, due to the problem of short staffing the patient care is missing, nurses are failing to rescue the patient and nurses are having job stress because of work overload and long length of duty

Recommendation includes: recommendation to hospital and recommendation to policy maker. Hospital should always maintain the standard of nurse patient ratio, they should not be more business minded because a single missed care leads to the death of the patient. Hospital should hire enough staff and should focus on the patient outcome. On the other hand, the recommendation to policy maker include formulation of new plan and policies to solve the problem of short staffing. Mostly, the policies are formulated but management fails to implement it. So, follow up should be done after implementation of policies. And the cost of study should be minimized so, the students who want to study nursing can afford the study. The policy maker should promote the nursing education to solve the problem of short staffing and shortage of

It deteriorates the patient condition or even threats the life of patient because of the failure of initial assessment, continue monitoring as needed.

3) Job dissatisfaction: Although the nurses are more overwhelmed by the patient recovery but the job dissatisfaction and stress still exists because nurses do not feel safe while providing care to the patient because of the short staffing and one mistake or missed care may lead to the death of the patient and furthermore, there is more work-overload and long shift to the limited staff that urge them to leave work. The patient outcome is affected by the short staffing. The quality of service provided by the limited staff is not adequate which results medication error, fall injury and missed care (Duffield et al., 2011, pp.250). The patient remains unnoticed and nurses fail to rescue because of short staffing which increases the mortality and morbidity rate and cost of the hospital stay of the patient (Diya et al., 2011, pp.1075). Furthermore, the nurse staffing is the effective quality care indicator to measure the patients’ outcome in term of change in nursing practice and improved quality