Part 1: Why I Researched This Topic
MY ESSENTIAL QUESTION: How do I illustrate the negative effects of inadequate staffing of my future career, nursing?
I wanted to research the topic of the understaffing of nurses because it is one of the primary problems in healthcare right now. One day when I was at my mentorship there were only two nurses. The office was extremely busy and the nurses were frantically rushing through patients, trying to see everyone quickly, so that they would not have a full waiting room. When this was happening one nurse forgot to take blood pressure while triaging patients, and it go me thinking, what happens when the ER is really busy and there are only two nurses handling many life and death emergencies very quickly, trying to save everyone. If an ER nurse forgot a step while she was rushing then it could have detrimental effects. So that is why I researched what happens when the hospital is understaffed with nurses. It not only affects people trying to become nurses in the future, like me, because it is harder to get a nursing job, but it also affects patients that aren’t getting the very best care that they could. I also wanted to know how this issue is solved and the impact that the solution has on the patients and the income of the hospital. This topic personally affects me because I want to become a nurse in the future. This research could educate me on what happens when there aren’t enough people working in the hospital, and how to handle the situation in the best way possible.
I wanted to research the topic of the understaffing of nurses because it is one of the primary problems in healthcare right now. One day when I was at my mentorship there were only two nurses. The office was extremely busy and the nurses were frantically rushing through patients, trying to see everyone quickly, so that they would not have a full waiting room. When this was happening one nurse forgot to take blood pressure while triaging patients, and it go me thinking, what happens when the ER is really busy and there are only two nurses handling many life and death emergencies very quickly, trying to save everyone. If an ER nurse forgot a step while she was rushing then it could have detrimental effects. So that is why I researched what happens when the hospital is understaffed with nurses. It not only affects people trying to become nurses in the future, like me, because it is harder to get a nursing job, but it also affects patients that aren’t getting the very best care that they could. I also wanted to know how this issue is solved and the impact that the solution has on the patients and the income of the hospital. This topic personally affects me because I want to become a nurse in the future. This research could educate me on what happens when there aren’t enough people working in the hospital, and how to handle the situation in the best way possible.