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Now that you have completed a series of assignments that have led you into the active project planning and development stage for your project, briefly describe your proposed solution to address the problem, issue, suggestion, initiative, or educational need and how it has changed since you first envisioned it. What led to your current perspective and direction? (Hospice Care)
Staffing in Nursing Home
Staffing is a major problem in nursing homes, there are a couple of reasons of understaffing in nursing home, one might be that management of the nursing home knowingly understaffing with the intensions of making profit, lack of well trained nurses in nursing homes thus makes it a challenged when it comes to retaining nurses and lastly is due to an increase in turnover.
Innovative practices have been improvised in order totackle the issue of understaffing, these practice mainly involve attracting, training and keeping staffs. Through development of a mentoring programs which mainly focus on conflict resolution and communication. Although it might be costly and timely studies have shown that the program has led to improved quality and continuity of care. Secondly would be involvement of staff in decision making, besides staff taking time out from theirduties which is resident care the staffs experience and knowledge gained at the workplace would assist in quality of care. Maintaining a flexible work schedule, nurses should take care of resident during the morning hours and in the afternoon they can take the time to visit residents and getting to know them better. A flexible working schedule gives staff time for their personal matters.
An increase in mistakes and even death due by nurses as they take less attention to the details because of lack of enough staff, nursing assistants are very as they play the role of assisting the patients who need the most medical attention through eating, drinking and a change of clothing. All these workload cannot be done by the nurse thus making it one of the causes of injuries in nursing homes. Overworking, when staffs are overworked it can get tough for them and some may result in knowingly committing abuseand mistakes.