Practical Nursing

Abstract

Nursing profession is the essential element of health care system. The shortage of nurses may lead to the inadequate care to the patients. One of the reasons of nurses` shortage is the inconsistent behavior of new graduated nurses in first year of their professional life. This paper discusses the reasons of such behavior as well as the challenges faced by nurses and provides the useful strategies to improve the capabilities of fresh graduates in clinical practical settings.

Abstractii

Introduction1

Discussion1

Attrition in Nurses2

Requirement of Knowledge Development2

Stress and Job Conflict3

Time Management4

Utilizing Role Conflict Strategies4

Conclusion5

Practical Nursing

Introduction

Nurses are the crucial part of the healthcare setting. Nurses relate directly to the patient care and thus affecting the human life via various aspects. In the present scenario, nursing shortage is one of important issues in healthcare organization. In addition to this, the new graduate after completing their studies encountered many challenges in acquiring job, adequate salary packages and providing quality care to the patients. There are several cases in which, students are not able in affording the tuition fees. It indicates the factors reducing the interest of people in attaining the nursing education.

Discussion

There are many reasons of shortage of nurses in the hospitals encompassing the high rate of attrition with in the initial year of the novel graduates of nurses. In United States, the statistical data has illustrated about 61 percent as the turnover for novice nurses. Twenty-five percent of the graduated nurses already have worked for two facilities at six to eight months. The elevate rate of turnover affects the novel graduate nurses professionally as well as personally along with the influence on the facility financially. Some of the statistical analysts have shown that most of the new graduate nurses used to leave their initial post in first six months of hiring because of bullying, a common type of lateral violence.

Attrition in Nurses

Several research studies have evaluated the factors or the reasons regarding the elevated incidence of attrition in the novel nurses graduated and are in their first year of practical life. The gap present among the preparedness of new nurses, their readiness regarding their profession and practice is due to the stimulation of stress. Stress does no allow the new nurses to retain their job and affect them personally and professionally. The fresh nurse graduates encounter several challenges, which possess the potential to cause stress and the job conflicts. Moreover, it causes ...