Adequate Nurse Staffing and Effects on Patient Safety

Adequate Nurse Staffing and Effects on Patient Safety

This week, you will identify an improvement issue for study in your final project throughout this course.

Using the readings for the week and the South University Online Library, write a 2-page paper.

Cover the following:

• Identify a quality, safety, or performance improvement issue to examine in your final project.
• Explain the selected issue by applying the six standards of quality healthcare measurement and achievement as set by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Describe how each of the six standards applies to the selected issue.

Be sure to support your statements with scholarly references and appropriate examples.

Topic for project is adequate nurse staffing and affects on patient safety.

Answer preview………..

Apparently, there are inadequate nurses in most hospitals and the patients have to queue for long hours to receive the services of the available nurses (Boamah et al., 2017). Availability of adequate nurses is critical in hospitals because at times critically injured or ill patients visit the hospitals in large numbers especially when there has had an accident, and the casualties are brought in the nearest hospital. Typically, there are six standards of quality required by patients………

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