Nursing Research

April 4th, 2020

Introduction

The nursing profession is faced with many challenges like any other. The nurse is tasked with the duty to take care of patients by visitation and to have the ability to study the problems to satisfy their patient’s .to to give the nurses the ability to know their work well; they are taking with the work of identification of duties that they are supposed to handle. There have been many challenges facing the nurses in their fold of work .such has been due to the shortage in the workforces as compared to the patient workload. (Lu, et al. 2015). Thus comes the need for the nurse to work for long hours without getting time to rest. When the nurses are overworked, they end up being over-exhausted in which in turn will result in the nurses underperforming.

The problem is crucial because the nurse is needed to take care of the patients. Thus the lesser the nurse who is present the healthcare facilities, the lower the work output that the facilities will meet with. The understaffing of the nursing facilities results in the problem that there are also other factors then come to hand. The lack of the nurses will make the experts present within the facility lack time to do their research due to lack of time.

Time is need for analysis of the data that has been obtained for patients to be done, if the nurse is not enough within the facilities, then that ability of the health care facilitates to allocate the needed number of the nurse to get the analysis of the result will be in lack. Therefore the facility will fail to give the satisfaction required to the public and the patient who are in the facilities. Consequently, the number of nurses who are within many organization are concerned with healthcare needed to be checked. This will help in the elevation of the care with the patients and the wards. (Lu, et al. 2015). He challenges that nurses face in the line of duty need to be taken care of.

The government and the concerned partied need to recruit enough nurses to help in the allocation of the services and the care that is needs by the patients within the diverse and spread health care facilities. (Wang, et al. 2017).

Importance of the research

Researches have been done to try and know the problem that the nurses face when in line with their duty. The study is intended to see the question of the nurse’s face and help in the environment of the issues because then nurses play a care role in the society in the healthcare if the patient and the people in general. Also, the study will help many organizations to have a clear picture of the problems and the challenges that the nurses in the course of doing their work. Also, the best facilities will be improved do other nurses after knowing what they face that hinders them in the course of doing their job.

In the study the research question that the researchers will be seeking to answer entail;

What challenges do the nurses face in the discharge off their duties within the working environment daily?

Upon getting the best answers to the question s then the study will give the best and adequate framework through which the problems the nurses face in the Couse of doing their work. Also, the future nurses will not have to face the same problem the present nurse is facing in the nursing fields.

Study and research

The study was conducted by the use of many reviews in information regarding the issues that the nurses face in the course of doing their work. Article and journal will be collected and examined for the information to be combined and the outcome analyses to give the best solution for the challenges that the nurse face in the course of doing their work. (Alavi et al. 2015).

Data collection

The data as collected by the use of many samples which were obtained from different places and different condition. There was the use of a questionnaire to the nurses to get the best answers on the issues they face. (Buerhaus, et al. 2017).This method was used because it was taken up to be cost-effective as well, like time-saving. The concepts will be administered dot the nurse in which the answers will be used by the researchers to get an informational and orderly manner. In the method, the participant is made to have an understanding of the study. Afterward, results will be put together, and the outcome put into a final document.

Researchers

The researcher is present to make sure that the infusion is obtained in the best manner and by the use and application if the nest applicable procedures.

Results

Advanced chances

Several challenges were seen as a factor that has affected the working environment of the nurse. The lack of opportunities among the nurse is alarming. The element has been seen to pose a challenge to then nurses because therein advancement in the careers if the nurses. This has been due to the changes in technology and transformation in the working environment; there have been many challenges that have come the way of the nurse. The nurse has been threatened with the loss of jobs (Wang et al. 2017).

Workload

There are very chance that are created for the nurse in each year. Thus the workload within the nurses is always accumulating. The nurses have to work for more than ten hours a day. The effect that this had had on the performance of the nurse us that they have underperformed. Also, the nurses have been under pressure and stress, which has led them to turn to drugs and alcohol abuse. (Buerhaus, et al. 2017).The general; guess that is most like correct in the fat the nurses in the state are few, and There is the need for the government to initiate more programs to train more nurses. Also, the few nurses present are forced to overwork their services to the patient who is their home away from the healthcare facilities.

The low number of staff present. The study found that the performance of the nurse is affected by the work that they receive. In a day, the nurses have to work for an average of ten hours. In which the nurses have to serve as many patients as they can. The fact that they are dealing with human needs the nurses to be in their right and their best states either mentally and or physically. However, the challenge that there are few nurses will make the nurse get exhausted in carrying out their chores. The reduced performance levels will be due to cutting with the day. In the morning they are active due to the fact

Hazards

Another challenge that the nurses were observed to face is the idea of the places that they work firm being dangerous. There are the dangers of the nurses getting exposed to injuries, pathogens, flu, and germs. An approximation of 5.6 million of the people within the healthcare sector is prone to get infected by pathogens. An example of the dangers the nurses also face is the struggler that the nurses are facing in the fight for covid 19. The nurse is going the extra mile to make sure that the patients are taking care of, and there is the chance of loss of loved one in the process due to the risk that is connected to the practices.

Also, the nurse and workers within the Medicare facilities are prone to the dangers of getting skin burns. Thus is concerned with the detergent that they use in the facility to clean their hands after getting into contact with highly infectious materials.

Compensation

The nurse who is located within the different regions in the work area given different amounting their pay. There is a nurse who is in the western state. They earn better. There are those when they are not paid by the work they make. Among the challenges, the nurse face is the imbalance in the pay that they get. Different firm’s inn state to another, the nurse is paid differently. (Buerhaus, et al. 2017).

Workplace violence

The nurses face another challenge at the workplace that is a concern with violence. Patients who are under the care of the nurses may become violent and a time harm the nurses. The number of injuries the nurse has experienced at the workplace has been on the rise.

Conclusion

Nurses form the backbone for the health care system across t globe. Thud there is the need it any govern met to put into play many aspects that will keep the nurse and the challenges that they face in check. Investment should be made up of which the government will have the ability to make more and build more colleges in which the nursing profession will be taught to help in the increase if the number of nurses.

References

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Buerhaus, P. I., Skinner, L. E., Auerbach, D. I., & Staiger, D. O. (2017). Four challenges facing the nursing workforce in the United States. Journal of Nursing Regulation, 8(2), 40-46

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.

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.