In: Nursing
Please give a reflection of a time that short-staffing has limited the quality of care that you were able to give and what possible solutions could have helped the situation?
Reflection :
When I was posted in Medical ICU , the satff was very short meansthe ration was three ventilated patients for one staff and it was so hectic that we were not able to complete our tasks by 8am morning . If any of the patients get sick then attention to others was not able to do because we were giving care to the sick one . Also can't take help from other staff because they are also stuck with their patients . Everyone wants to finish there duty . We used to work hard without eating food . Ofcourse the care was affected in terms of quality because we had mentel stress , physical tiredness and less time . And all this was because the staffs posted in ICU was less and in ward was double . Administration has done less recruitment that year due to shortage of funds .
The solution to this situation was to shift the extra staffs from wards to the ICU and our incharge gave request for the same and they were shifted to ICU which was relief for us .