Running head: NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 1

NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 5

Nursing Research Project

Phase Two

Karen Lezcano

Nursing Research

Florida National University

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.

Literature review

1. What are the factors that lead to the challenges that the nurses face when providing their services?

2. What are the challenges that nurses face in offering effective care to the patients

Methodology and design of the study

The research uses a detailed literature review. I will come up with a better study design to help conduct the research. It is evident that through the study, I will obtain detailed information, unlike the previous research that has been conducted in the past that are in line with the thesis topic. There is much information in different journals and research papers. I, therefore, focused on researching many details using scholarly references and keywords such as adult learners, nurse education, and expectations. I also focused on unpublished and published materials that have more information. The main aim of the research is to come up with a precise, scientifically sound, resourceful, and convincing results.

The kind of literature review that I have chosen to essay for the essay is all about coming up with the right research questions, being able to analyze some of the results obtained from the study, being able to choose the right pieces of information that will help address and answer the research, being able to group the literature themes and assessing the compiled literature. The primary aim is to answer the study question on the problems that nurses are facing in their day to day activities while at work. I will also help come up with better results not only from the current study but also looking at the previous studies that have been conducted before. It will help gather more knowledge from multiple sources hence being in a position of coming up with the right solution to the issue. It will also help me come up with the right evidence in cases where there was none found. The literature review will also help us in determining the characteristics and relationship between the concepts and the problem.

Data search

The process of collecting the search was done on 7th July 2019. Two authors conducted it. The primary aim of the search was to come up with an appropriate keyword, and the database that is relevant to the thesis. The research search and data collection entail using previous studies that have been conducted before and relate to the topic. It talks about the issue that affects the nurses in their workplaces. The articles that were used to conduct the research were obtained from a different database. They include the Elsevier science direct, CINAHL, and pub med. In order to quickly find the document without any difficulties on the literature review and thesis, some of the keywords were used. They include nurse experiences and other synonyms. The search is limited to 8 years in order to provide a better chance of accessing sufficient and relevant data.

Sampling Methodology

The research was, therefore, conducted under different circumstances. The authors came up with different techniques that would help conduct the research. The first thing was to identify the people that will take part in the research. The nurses working both in the private and health sector took part in the study. They chose several 20 nurses working in the private sector to take part in the study. The research also used 30 nurses that are working in the public sector. The researchers grouped the nurses in different categories so as the research would be conducted smoothly. The researchers prepared questionnaires to help with the study. They came up with closed and open-ended questionnaires. There are those questionnaires where the interviewee will answer without any difficulties and those that the interviewee will be aided. The critical thing with this study is that the nurses are all literate and can quickly answer the research question facing any difficulties. The method is more natural to research since it is less costly. It will also contribute towards coming up with better and detailed results regarding the project. It is a standard methodology that has been used before by various studies to come up with better information for the study. The other key to consider when conducting is to keep a small number as it will help obtain rich data. Data can also be diminished in cases where one uses too many participants for the research. I also incorporated the use of email interviews. The email had question interviews which were sent to each participant. The key thing with using this method is that it saves time not only for the participants but also for the researcher. The research also uses less money for the study. They are only required to send mail to the participants containing the research questions. The researchers, therefore, sent the emails to all participants and alerted them. It was one way of increasing participants in taking part in the project.

Data collection

The method involves first introducing the research to the participants. It allows the participants to have trust in the researchers hence allowing the participant to come up with better results. The next thing is to combine the results in a PDF form to analyze them in detail. The participants, in this case, responded positively and answered well to the questions. The critical thing is that every nurse that took part in the study is educated, and therefore they can quickly understand how to go about the questions.

Role of the researcher

The worker of the researcher, in this case, is to ensure that the research is conducted procedurally. The researcher also collects every detail to ensure that the research has sufficient data. The researcher also prepares the interviewee questions as well as alerts the respondents on how to answer the questions.

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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.

NURSES IN HEALTHCARE. 1

Nurses in healthcare

Karen Lezcano

Florida National University

Nursing Research

March 20th, 2020

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PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION

Nursing Research Phase # 3 Project Implementation

Karen Lezcano

Florida National University

March 7th, 2020

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