References

Alavi, A., Bahrami, M., Zargham-Boroujeni, A., & Yousefy, A. (2015). Pediatric nurses' perception of factors associated with caring self-efficacy: A qualitative content analysis. Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research, 20(2), 232.

Lu, D. M., Sun, N., Hong, S., Fan, Y. Y., Kong, F. Y., & Li, Q. J. (2015). Occupational stress and coping strategies among emergency department nurses of China. Archives of psychiatric nursing, 29(4), 208-212.

McLelland, G., Hall, H., Gilmour, C., & Cant, R. (2015). Support needs of breastfeeding women: Views of Australian midwives and health nurses. Midwifery, 31(1), e1-e6.

Skundberg‐Kletthagen, H., & Moen, Ø. L. (2017). Mental health work in school health services and school nurses' involvement and attitudes, in a Norwegian context. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(23-24), 5044-5051.

Shoorideh, F. A., Ashktorab, T., Yaghmaei, F., & Alavi Majd, H. (2015). Relationship between ICU nurses' moral distress with burnout and anticipated turnover. Nursing Ethics, 22(1), 64-76.

Nursing Research Project

Introduction

Nursing just like any profession faces numerous challenges daily. Nurses are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that they work diligently and professionally to ensure that their clients are satisfied with the services that they deliver. They are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that the patients that visit their premises get quality services that they deserve. However, these services come at a cost; they face a myriad of challenges that they have to work fully despite these challenges to satisfy their clients. Therefore, this research paper analysis some of the problems that nurses face in the daily execution of their duties.

Identification of the Problem

Nurse faces a myriad of challenges in their daily execution of duties. To ensure that they discharge their duties perfectly all these challenges must be identified and effective measures are put in place to ensure that the challenges are taken care of. The major problems that most of the medical facilities are the issue of understaffing. Nurses have faced challenges in terms of duties assigned to them in comparison to their numbers. Studies conducted have also portrayed that there are shortages of nurses in the medical facilities. However, the challenges that these nurses face are varied in different nations and towns, there are those nations that have surplus while there are those towns and nations that have a high shortage of these important service providers in the healthcare facilities.

The impact of these shortages has also resulted in further challenges for the nurses. In this regard, one of the major challenges that these nurses face is the need to work for long hours due to the shortage of employees at the medical facilities. The few available nurses must work in shifts and endure long working hours to ensure that they meet the desired goals of the institution are met. The work of nurses calls for one to be sober and cognitive in decision making (McLelland et al. 2015). However, with a situation where nurses are required to work for long hours, work in shifts such that they can sleep for a while and resume their duties. This is a worrying trend for the nurses because their cognitive ability and judgment as normal human beings are likely to decline when overworked. Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions are also likely to increase with time as they work overtime.

Besides that, the shortages of nurses in healthcare facilities which calls for overworking of these nurses to ensure that patients are fully taken care of, usually lead to an increase in hazard and dangerous accidents taking place taking place during their execution of duties. For instance, nurses working in laboratories are exposed to hazardous chemicals, viruses, and pathogens as they seek to unveil the diseases of their patients (Shoorideh et al. 2015). Therefore, if they are overworked they are likely to make mistakes which might result in situations where the nurses might get injured or make the wrong diagnosis for their patients. This is a situation that can make the running of the facility unimaginable due to the prevailing situation.

Significance of the Problem

Nurses are key role players in the successful running of the healthcare facilities. All the healthcare facilities require the services of the nurses to ensure that the needs of the patients are taken care of. In this regard, the problem of understaffing of nurses at the medical institutions is a major problem that these institutions should be able to manage to ensure that the desired results are achieved. Medical facilities require that they use these nurses to discharge their duties perfectly; their shortage is an issue that institutions see a huge challenge towards meeting their goals.

Shortages of nurses in healthcare organizations mean that these institutions are unable to effectively discharge their duties as expected. Experienced nurses have higher chances of perfectly discharging their duties, institutions that have insufficient nurses' means that they can only meet the ever-increasing number of patients in hospitals by overworking these nurses. Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions as nurses are also high as they get fatigued when they are overworked (Alavi et al. 2015).

The issue of understaffed nurses is an issue of not only an issue of concern by medical facilities but also by the states and health organizations in various sectors. Healthcare is an issue of concern to all individuals as we are all expected to be of good health so that we can produce. States advocate having enough medical staff so that all medical situations can always be easily managed whenever they arise. Adequate nurses in the medical facilities usually make it easier to manage any medical emergencies that might arise thus making it easier to have a healthy nation that's productive in all corners.

Besides that, understaffed nurses mean that it's difficult for these professions to have time for their research and improve their skills. Medical facilities are always facing challenges on daily basis; there are medical situations that require substantial time for the nurses to analyze the samples before coming up with a solution to the prevailing situation (Lu et al. 2015). Therefore, in such cases where the number of nurses matters at any medical facility the process of determining the required results is usually difficult for the management. This ends with the facility not being able to satisfy their clients in the long run the facilities end up with reduced clients and low income if it's a private facility.

Purpose of Research

This research aims to determine the problems that nurse’s face in their daily discharging of duties. Nurses play key roles in our well-being in society and conducting research to determine the problems that they face is only meant to ensure that they improve in the services that they deliver. This study has shown that the major problem that they face is understaffing in most of the nations. Major hospitals have been unable to effectively discharge their duties because they have few nurses to effectively discharge their duties.

Besides that, as a result of this study, relevant institutions and bodies have an opportunity to learn of the challenges that nurse’s face in their daily discharge of duties. In this regard, learning of the shortages of the nurses in the medical facilities indicates that relevant bodies and institutions should play their roles perfectly towards ensuring that there are adequate and qualified nurses for the medical facilities to ensure that at the end the desired goals can always be achieved (Skundberg‐Kletthagen & Moen, 2017). As a result, this study provides an opportunity for the relevant bodies to initiate the right measures that will make it better in the running of the medical facilities.

Research Questions

This research seeks to determine the most effective ways that would ensure there is effective running of the desired goals. Nurses are critical for the provision of medical services in the facility. However, despite enormous studies being done on the roles of nurses in society, there have been limited studies that have been done on the exact challenges that nurses face. Therefore, this study seeks to answer the question, what challenges nurses face in their daily discharge of duties? Besides that, there also the need to answer the question, what are the benefits of having adequate and qualified nurses in the medical facilities?

Effective answering of these questions will provide a clear road map for the future nurses and relevant authorities. This only means that future nurses have a chance to be fully equipped and be well-staffed and experienced as they shall be provided with all the necessary tools and resources that would result in the desired needs of their clients being fully taken care of and on a timely basis.

References

Alavi, A., Bahrami, M., Zargham-Boroujeni, A., & Yousefy, A. (2015). Pediatric nurses' perception of factors associated with caring self-efficacy: A qualitative content analysis. Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research, 20(2), 232.

Lu, D. M., Sun, N., Hong, S., Fan, Y. Y., Kong, F. Y., & Li, Q. J. (2015). Occupational stress and coping strategies among emergency department nurses of China. Archives of psychiatric nursing, 29(4), 208-212.

McLelland, G., Hall, H., Gilmour, C., & Cant, R. (2015). Support needs of breastfeeding women: Views of Australian midwives and health nurses. Midwifery, 31(1), e1-e6.

Skundberg‐Kletthagen, H., & Moen, Ø. L. (2017). Mental health work in school health services and school nurses' involvement and attitudes, in a Norwegian context. Journal of clinical nursing, 26(23-24), 5044-5051.

Shoorideh, F. A., Ashktorab, T., Yaghmaei, F., & Alavi Majd, H. (2015). Relationship between ICU nurses' moral distress with burnout and anticipated turnover. Nursing Ethics, 22(1), 64-76.

Project Implementation

The project implementation refers to the carrying out of activities as proposed. The success of implementation depends on internal and external factors. The most important one has organized projects and active monitoring. Overall management generally is controlled by the lead managers and project managers. Project implementation task involves implementation, evaluation, report and communication

Implementing the work plan

Implementing the work plan consists of carrying the activities to deliver output and monitoring progress. Monitoring is broadly defined as the control of project implementation to keep the project on track. The project manager holds the responsibility for regular monitoring of the plan (Washington, Ward and Young 2017)

Tracking of the project

The project application approved is the baseline of the project. It is the primary document helpful for tracking project progress. The project application entails the project objectives, description of activities, and measurable output. The project should always be regarded as unchangeable once the project has started. The project has a dynamic aspect, and the ability to adapt to modifications likely to lead to success. The tracking begins by fixing the project baseline, then the definition of needed information, definition of margin and scope and document and communication of variation

Financial management

On the program level, once the funds have been awarded to the project, they are "secured" in that project and cannot be released until the project closure. The funds, therefore, cannot be used in any other project. The funds are only committed to what it was meant for in an organization. Every project must always have a budget. It is also required that the project provides a reasonable spending forecast. The project should spend under the budget. The project must always avoid bad planning and financial budgeting that could demand more money. The lead manager holds the overall responsibility for business management. Each partner, however, must monitor its spending and ensure to keep its records

Management of project risk

Risk can be internal or external during the implementation of the project. Risk can be any factor that can threaten the achievement of the project. Risk management involves involving three types. (Callistus and Clinton 2018)

Identification of risk

Risk is identified by looking at possible threats. A right way of identifying relevant through brainstorming and comparison with other similar projects

Assessing risk

The potential risk is identified and then quantified according to the probability of occurrence. Assessment is based on assumptions and educated guesses.

Dealing with the risk

The project manager can decide what to do in the instance of a threat. The manager can choose to ignore the threat or find a way of removing the risk.

Revision of the work plan

Work plans refer to short term planning containing details on activities of the project. Timing is an essential part of revising the work plan. Each work plan should cover a stipulated time plan for the success of the project. Project revision entails factors such as unexpected delays and project modification. Project modifications involves activity modification, partnership modification, project time plan modification, and budget modification. Every project always have an extension of flexibility when it comes to the modification of the project

Project communication

Activities of a project must be appropriate to ensure the project reaches its communication and project objectives. The project can achieve this through regular information flow, a sound feedback system, and long term arrangements.

PROJECT REPORT

Part of the project implementation involves project reporting. A good project calls for reporting during the execution. The main aim of reporting is to ensure the project aims are achieved. The resources that have been used, the problems encountered, and the expectation of the business. The common practice in the project report involves having one report for both financial and content relationships. The reporting process is a step by step process. It starts from the sub-contractor to the project partner than to the lead partner and finally ending at the joint secretariat.

Project reporting contains reporting requirements. The reports always include information on what was going on in terms of activities carried out, the output that was delivered, and the expenditure that was incurred (Musawir, Serra, and Zwikael 2017) Financial reports provide information on the amount spent from the last release. Many projects deliver six months reporting which provides more frequent and systematic updates on the projects

Financial control

Each time the business will reclaim money from the program, the report on spending will go through a financial check to make sure spending rules have been adhered to. The audit is always a requirement every time a report is demanded. Financial control requires a budget controller to ensure the business is running smoothly. (Musawir, Serra and Zwikael 2017) An audit trail gives information on the flow of spending on the project. For the project to receive funding, it must provide an estimate of all the costs that the business requirements. Here, the eligibility of the business will be required. Also, possible financial problems are foreseen and projected.

Financial control will require the business to set up and account for project funds, involving finance managers from the start, securing of the audit trail and keeping the filings up to date

PROJECTION EVALUATION

In the implementation, a foreseen project evaluation has to be done. Project evaluation will be very important for measuring the performance of the Nursing Project. Project evaluation will help in answering questions on whether the project will still be in track and whether the project will be delivering results. Before the evaluation is conducted, the specifications and requirements of the project will be sought. The purpose of the assessment will mostly for the use of accountability, implementation, knowledge production and effective planning (Callistus and Clinton 2018)

The scope of the project will start on what is to be evaluated for the project. Concern on evaluation questions will be addressed here. The items will tell what the project will have achieved, how the project will have completed the set plans and what will happen in the future

Implementing and managing the evaluations will require continuous interaction between the evaluating team and the stallholders that will be involved. Evaluation results will, from here, be disseminated and communicated to stakeholders. Then finally, the evaluation feedback to the partnership to strengthen and improve the performance of the project. The stakeholders will review the reports first. The evaluation must be pragmatic and gives a project planning and management. Only the right stakeholders will be involved

Project implementation checklist

Finally, in the implementation, a project implementation checklist is drawn. A comparison of success criteria and comments section are drawn. It is here where partnership monitoring the project will make comments. The plan will be communicated to the stakeholders, and then it will be ensured all the partners will have secured the audit trail. A determination of whether separate accounts have been set up for the project funds

Reference

Callistus, T., & Clinton, A. (2018, January). The role of monitoring and evaluation in construction project management. In International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (pp. 571-582). Springer, Cham.

Musawir, A., Serra, C. E. M., Zwikael, O., & Ali, I. (2017). Project governance, benefits management, and project success: Towards a framework for supporting organizational strategy implementation. International Journal of Project Management, 35(8), 1658-1672.

Wang, L., Kunc, M., & Bai, S. J. (2017). Realizing value from project implementation under uncertainty: An exploratory study using system dynamics. International Journal of Project Management, 35(3), 341-352.

Washington, T. R., Ward, T. S., Young, H. N., Orpinas, P., & Cornelius, L. J. (2017). Implementing and evaluating an interprofessional minority health conference for social work and healthcare professionals. Journal of interprofessional care, 31(6), 785-788.