It’s Hard to be a Nurse Upon extensive research, it has become quite evident that the declining number of nurses, termed nursing turnover, is a huge issue plaguing the medical field and healthcare organizations around the country and can be caused by a number of different factors. These healthcare organizations require a strong and efficient nursing staff. Without a dependable staff, the profits will decrease rapidly causing financial burdens. Medical facilities require a steady and strong staff of nurses and other medical personnel for the sake of familiarity for the benefit of the patients. In addition, many resources go into training new nurses and it is often detrimental in terms of money and time. The time and money that goes into training new nurses would ideally be used in the best interest of the patient. Essentially, increasing nursing turnover decreases the quality of how the patient is taken care of, the polar opposite of what the goal and duty of a nurse should be. Nursing turnover can be caused by a number of things. Nurses can be affected by other nurses and doctors in the working environment, be overwhelmed by the huge and stressful workload, and be affected by the unfair pay that they receive and the lack of organization in the screening process. Nursing turnover is capable of causing many underlying problems. There is a huge cost to the decline of nurses. With a huge shortage in nurses, healthcare organizations are not able to function in a way that is beneficial to the patients. Patients will not be taken care of in the way they should be. Also, with the nursing shortage, there may be moments where patients will
It’s Hard to be a Nurse Upon extensive research, it has become quite evident that the declining number of nurses, termed nursing turnover, is a huge issue plaguing the medical field and healthcare organizations around the country and can be caused by a number of different factors. These healthcare organizations require a strong and efficient nursing staff. Without a dependable staff, the profits will decrease rapidly causing financial burdens. Medical facilities require a steady and strong staff of nurses and other medical personnel for the sake of familiarity for the benefit of the patients. In addition, many resources go into training new nurses and it is often detrimental in terms of money and time. The time and money that goes into training new nurses would ideally be used in the best interest of the patient. Essentially, increasing nursing turnover decreases the quality of how the patient is taken care of, the polar opposite of what the goal and duty of a nurse should be. Nursing turnover can be caused by a number of things. Nurses can be affected by other nurses and doctors in the working environment, be overwhelmed by the huge and stressful workload, and be affected by the unfair pay that they receive and the lack of organization in the screening process. Nursing turnover is capable of causing many underlying problems. There is a huge cost to the decline of nurses. With a huge shortage in nurses, healthcare organizations are not able to function in a way that is beneficial to the patients. Patients will not be taken care of in the way they should be. Also, with the nursing shortage, there may be moments where patients will
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