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Vivian Uzoamaka Enyinnaya
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For healthcare to serve the community better, it is better to balance the competing needs such as finances, patients, and labor because they have huge implications on policy development (Long et al., 2022). Policies are developed to support the issues of staffing and ensure that patient safety is upheld while addressing the competing needs. Sometimes there emerges ethical dilemmas when addressing the needs because patients should be central while staffing is crucial element of providing quality care.
One of the competing needs that has a serious impact on policy-making regarding nursing shortage is the allocation of funds. Admittedly, nurses have excessive workload because of increased acute illnesses, patient demands, low nurse to patient ratio, and improper nurse scheduling (Nanjundeswaraswamy, 2022). A major challenge when formulating a company’s policy to solve the issue of nurse shortage is the distribution of funds between staffing and other healthcare responsibilities (Drummond, Sinclair & Gratton, 2022). Another point of conflict of needs is the education of nurses away from practice while hospitals need more nurses.
The impacts of such conflicts of needs causes poor patient outcomes, dissatisfaction with job, high mortality rates, low patient to nurse ratio, and worker burnout. A policy could be developed to solve the issue of competing needs so that there are adequate nurses in all settings and facilities. The policy should support travel nurses because they are more cost effective for hospitals (Welch, 2022). The nurses help to fill the short-term shortages of nurses. Hospitals benefit a lot because they do not pay much for retirement, paid off days, and not paying employees benefits. The use of travel nurses could also cut on the costs of payroll running, hiring, training, and overtime (Welch, 2022). Travel nurses are also flexible such that they are easy and quick to deploy in areas where there are sudden shortages of nurses.
References
Drummond, D., Sinclair, D., & Gratton, J. (2022). Troubles in canada’s health workforce: The why, the where, and the way out of shortages. Commentary – C.D.Howe Institute, (630), 0_1,0_2,1-40. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/troubl…
Long, Z., Wen, X., Lan, M., & Yang, Y. (2022). Nursing rescheduling problem with multiple rescheduling methods under uncertainty. Complex & Intelligent Systems, 8(6), 4557-4569. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-021-00554-z
Nanjundeswaraswamy, T. S. (2022). Nurses quality of work life: Scale development and validation. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, 38(2), 371-394. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-09-2020-0154
Welch, S. (2022). The drive for staff: Human services agencies taking on talent shortages with limited resources. Crain’s Detroit Business, 38(33), 8. https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/drive-staf…