Abstract
The nursing shortage is a global issue that because there is a growing consensus that identifying flaws and opportunities for improving the working environment in hospital is vital to maintain positive patient outcomes, adequate staffing, high-quality care, nurses’ job satisfaction and hence their retention. The aim of this study was to explore the staffing and resource adequacy in NPE and the association with POs (adverse events). A descriptive correlational study was conducted and participated 395 staff nurses (94.3%) from three university hospitals in Malaysia over two months, from January to February 2011. In this paper, the results showed that 344 (87.1%) staff nurses rated that was unfavorable (
Highlights
To date, the nursing shortage has been debated as a shortage in a number of nurse scientists who are developing the science and are crucial for improving the quality of care, who transform knowledge to guide practice; and who make certain that science affects policy changes that can translate to nursing care [1]
Adequate staffing and resources remain as an essential aspect in the working environment and this study recommended that management would be well advised to deal with this aspect of creation of healthy work environments to worth the effort to maintain positive patient outcomes, adequate staffing and high quality care
The nursing shortage has been debated as a shortage in a number of nurse scientists who are developing the science and are crucial for improving the quality of care, who transform knowledge to guide practice; and who make certain that science affects policy changes that can translate to nursing care [1]
Summary
The nursing shortage has been debated as a shortage in a number of nurse scientists who are developing the science and are crucial for improving the quality of care, who transform knowledge to guide practice; and who make certain that science affects policy changes that can translate to nursing care [1] It is more nurses are required, but it includes enough resources with more science in complex healthcare systems which are significant in the ongoing pursuit to attain cost-effective [1], high quality nursing care [1], high job satisfaction [2] and positive patient outcomes [3,4]. Job satisfaction emerges among other stuffs from the perception of resources allocated for caring and the care quality within the division [8]
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