Answer for NHS FPX 4000 Assessment 1 Developing a Health Care Perspective
Answer for NHS FPX 4000 Assessment 1 Developing a Health Care Perspective
Nurses are among the frontline healthcare team whose direct role involves patient care as well as case management in hospital establishments. Despite their pivotal role in patient management, health institution has over the past decades witnessed a surge in nurse shortage (Kelly et al., 2021). The decrease in number of these professionals have been compounded by the increasing number of the ageing population together with the dual burden of both communicable as well as non-communicable illnesses. The current shortage of qualified nurses duplicates serious challenges of burnout among the providers and this has a ripple effect in compromised healthcare outcomes to patients.
Overview of the Selected Topic
Nurse burnout is a matter of interest not only to patients but also to health industry as a whole. With the burnout, patients remain vulnerable to errors in diagnosis and poor health outcomes. Health institutions also bear the brunt of nurse burnout especially when the patients have to remain within their premises longer than expected. The most disinteresting aspect of fatigue among nurses are on increased cost of care due to prolonged length of stay to hospitalized patients (Griffiths et al., 2020). Hence, it is essential to address burnout among nurses in a bid to cut on cost of care occasioned by errors in diagnoses or patient management.
Even though nurse burnout has a direct effect on patient outcome and increased cost for health facilities, it also affects nurse students during clinical practice. A case scenario occurred during my placement at a health facility where I experienced workplace incivility from one of the senior nurse staff. Plan of management for a specific patient under my care was not communicated clearly by the nurse and this led to errors in prescription drug administration to the patient (Muir et al., 2022). Lucky enough, the wrong prescription did not pose eminent danger of health to the patient but it damaged my reputation as my competency on patient care was questioned. However, it came to my realization that the nurse handled a lot of patients and worked a straight 12-hour shift in a day. Besides, she had other administrative duties as she was the nurse in-charge in the station of placement.
Peer-reviewed Articles
In order to address the issue of burnout among nursing care providers in a facility, four research articles were selected. These are literature materials published in English and whose limits of study are within 3 to 5 years. The articles are outlined below
I. Griffiths, P., Saville, C., Ball, J., Jones, J., Pattison, N., Monks, T., & Safer Nursing Care Study Group. (2020). Nursing workload, nurse staffing methodologies and tools: A systematic scoping review and discussion. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 103, 103487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2019.103487
II. Kelly, L. A., Gee, P. M., & Butler, R. J. (2021). Impact of nurse burnout on organizational and position turnover. Nursing outlook, 69(1), 96-102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.outlook.2020.06.008
III. Muir, K. J., Wanchek, T. N., Lobo, J. M., & Keim-Malpass, J. (2022). Evaluating the Costs of Nurse Burnout-Attributed Turnover: A Markov Modeling Approach. Journal of Patient Safety, 18(4), 351-357. https://doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000920
IV. Wei, H., King, A., Jiang, Y., Sewell, K. A., & Lake, D. M. (2020). The impact of nurse leadership styles on nurse burnout: A systematic literature review. Nurse Leader, 18(5), 439-450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mnl.2020.04.002
The search for the preceding literature materials was made through the use of text words and medical subject heading related to burnout among nursing care providers. Articles were selected from Google Scholar, Medline, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trails and EMBASE. The inclusion criteria took into account articles published between 3 to 5 years to ensure the selected items are address the current research. Each study material was analyzed as a way to minimize risk of bias as well as to affirm the relevance of the findings for this research. The literature search strategy also involved the use of a Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) tool to appraise research articles for randomized control studies (RCTs). The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) tool was used to ascertain the quality of non-randomized selected materials.
Summary of Peer-reviewed Articles
Griffiths, P., Saville, C., Ball, J., Jones, J., Pattison, N., Monks, T., & Safer Nursing Care Study Group. (2020). Nursing workload, nurse staffing methodologies and tools: A systematic scoping review and discussion. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 103, 103487.
