NURS 6052 SEARCHING DATABASES

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NURS 6052 SEARCHING DATABASES

Thank you for your post. Nurse burnout in correlation to poor patient outcomes is getting worse. Nurses are not able to sustain the quality of nursing care with patient overload. At some point throughout the shift, one patient’s care or deterioration, will take away that assigned nurse and their other patients will be neglected and receive the bare minimum of care, so the nurse ends her shift on time. Having a 3:1 ratio in ICU or 5- 6:1 on a med-surg unit is unsafe and below the standard of care. (Bourgault, 2022) But because so many nurses have left their unit, hospital or nursing all together, the nurses that remain, suffer the consequences.

Nurses cannot engage in self-care because they feel guilty about saying no to working when their colleagues are short staffed and overworked, so they too, will pick up an extra shift to help. This turns into nurses working 5 or 6 days in a row, 12–16 hour shifts. If the numbers are met or somewhat balances out, leadership turns a blind eye. Occasionally, you will have a nurse manager that can and will do the job of their staff, they are willing to run the floor or take an assignment, but that is far and few between. (Seymour, 2022).

I found the Walden University Library to be helpful with finding relevant research articles.  The information is clear and easy to follow. The webinar with the librarians is great! They showed a lot of helpful tips and tools to narrow down research articles among other things. (Walden University Library, (n.d.).  Watching the videos enlightened and inspired me to use the library more.

References

Bourgault A. (2022). The Nursing Shortage and Work Expectations Are in Critical Condition: Is Anyone Listening? Critical Care Nurse, Apr 01, Vol. 42 Issue 2, p8. https://web.p.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=6&sid=1c69768f-4ef3-48cc-9137-f283e860b309%40redis&bdata=JkF1dGhUeXBlPXNoaWImc2l0ZT1laG9zdC1saXZlJnNjb3BlPXNpdGU%3d#AN=35362075&db=mnhLinks to an external site.

Seymour, N. (2022).  Nurse leader pleads for funding as staffing shortage forces closure of 900 aged-cared beds. KaiTiaki Nursing, New Zealand. https://content.ebscohost.com/ContentServer.asp?T=P&P=AN&K=158542866&S=R&D=rzh&EbscoContent=dGJyMNLr40SeprQ4wtvhOLCmsEqep7NSr6i4TLOWxWXS&ContentCustomer=dGJyMPGss0q1qK5IuePfgeyx5n3f4vKA8dnnLinks to an external site.

Walden University Library. (n.d.). Keyword searching: Finding articles on your topic: Introduction to keyword searching http://academicguides.waldenu.edu/library/keyword/searching-basicsLinks to an external site.

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