PATIENT ABUSE IN NURSING FACILITIES

Patient Abuse in Nursing Facilities

Patient Abuse in Nursing Facilities

Introduction

Nursing is a significant branch of health care system. The responsibilities of this branch extend beyond the scope of doctrines and principles of health care system. Nursing management is the most vitally integral part of health care systems (Lundy and Janes, 2009, pp. 24). However when the occupational workers are not committed to their profession, many crisis can arise. It is the fundamental demand of the nursing framework that nurses should provide people centered health care (Killion and Dempski, 2006, pp. 24). When the nurses fail to understand the need of people centered health care system problems like abuse in health care arises. Abuse in health care has been identified as an ever increasing problem that has challenging and difficult outcomes in regards with the quality of care being delivered and the finance being invested in health care systems. Several researches have been conducted to explore patient satisfaction in regards with health services being provided. Patient security is the main component of patient satisfaction that now is being increasingly scrutinized.

Problem Statement

The document explores the Patient abuse in nursing facilities and aids in better understanding of the topic. Through a profound review of the literature this paper will address and focus on the problem of patient abuse by the nurses. It deals with the potential reasons of abuse and how abuse is usually directed towards the patients. The content is designed to cultivate comprehensive understanding of the impacts of patient abuse in health care system under the lights of literature already present and researches already conducted.

Significance of the Problem

It is important to have insights about the issue of patient abuse in order to built framework of ethical considerations regarding it. Abuse is a socially deviant act and therefore should not be overlooked, in fact strategies must be derived to counteract with such unacceptably deviant issue. However to develop strategically framework of any issue its important to gain comprehensively profound understanding of factors associated with it and its potential consequences on society. Therefore a critical understanding is significant and this research paper aims to develop it. The approach towards understanding the issue is critically based on reviewing the literature and themes associated with the issue.

Methodology

The research methodology plays a critically vital role in presenting a good research paper. A cross sectional study was conducted of the articles present in literature regarding the issue. It is important to amalgamate the understanding of themes related to the issue presented in literature. It helps in holding the attainment of research objective. Some of the themes have been amalgamated in my research paper relating to the issue of patient abuse in nursing. These themes are in relation with exploring how the abuse might take place in nursing facilities and discover the factors associated with what influences the nurses' attitudes towards abusing?

In every article only these themes were focused and any other article discussing other themes or deviating from my focal ...