Essays on Mandatory Overtime

Nursing

Mandatory Overtime in Nursing: Implementations Although mandatory overtime among nurses is not encouraged because of the perceived risk on job performance and patient management, the practice is still necessary particularly in health facilities where staffing is an issue. In situations where there are insufficient nurses, a mandatory overtime can be implemented. According to Rogoski et al., (2013) hospitals are typically understaffed particularly in neonatal ICUs by 32%, which is a ground for the implementation of overtime. In addition, high-acuity units particularly among infants require additional 0.39% of nurses. Implementing the mandate on overtime should begin by analyzing the current ...

Literature Reading

Literature Reading Nursing profession is faced with several issues concerning care practices including the mandatory overtime imposed on nurses. However, both positive and negative perceptions about mandatory overtime appear in various studies about its effect on work efficiency and patient safety. The following literatures provide significant insights on the issue of mandatory overtime based on the findings encompassing both the qualitative and quantitative methods. Bae, S. (2013). Presence of nurse mandatory overtime regulations and nurse and patient outcomes.Nursing Economics, 31(2), 59-89. Retrieved from https://www.nursingeconomics.net/ce/2015/article31025989.pdf Mandatory overtime imposed among nurses is a prevalent practice in order to address the ...

Introduction

Staffing issues in nursing that occur because of the growing shortage of nurses and huge budget cuts has been an ongoing concern for a long period (American Nursing Association, 2013). Registered nurses have acknowledged that the issue has led to longer working hours for nurses as they take care of sick patients. The situation puts both the safety of patient and nurses at risk. This has brought the need for adequate staffing levels to achieve the optimal nurse to patient ration that is now a national priority. The projected outcome of safe staffing include; reduced medication errors, a decrease ...

For a long time now, nurses have been fighting against inadequate staffing and the outcomes that such issues have on them and the patients under their care. Additionally, the ever ballooning needs of the health care system have resulted in the number of patients requiring care going above the available healthcare personnel (Aiken, et al., 2014). As such, the available nurses presently working in the country, both at the state and the federal level are overwhelmed by the responsibilities bestowed on them. From the foregoing, therefore, it is evident that finding the optimal level of the nurse-to-patient ratio has ...

A major challenge in nursing revolves around staffing. Inappropriate staffing of nurses in health institutions has contributed to both professional and institutional challenges. Currently, practicing nurses have to cover mandatory overtime due to the personnel shortage. Nursing shortage has contributed to the lack of nursing staff. The nursing problem affects the practicing nurses as well as health care institutions (American Nurses Association, 2013). The staffing problem has risen due to hospital administrators channeling their funds towards medical technology investments as compared to personnel investment. Some states like California have identified staffing as a problem in nursing and have formulated a policy, ...

Introduction

Direct support persons (DSPs) serving in a humanitarian organization Everyday Lives (EL) are mandated with the responsibility of taking care of mentally retarded individuals or rather intellectually challenged persons. Working conditions at EL have not been quite encouraging for DSPs to maintain their jobs at EL leading to an overwhelming rate of DSP turnover, this paper presents a remediation plan to address the turnover in the organization and ensure sustainability in the management of organizational operations besides cost saving on a regular human resource recruitment due to turnover. Foremost, one reason that has been identified as to be behind the high ...

Nursing fatigue and overtime hours is a major issue in the nursing sector in the present times. Studies indicate more than half of the registered nurses work overtime. Working overtime consistently makes the nurse tired compromising their work. According to Hugman (2003), fatigue compromises the ethics registered nurses follow. Registered nurses should be attentive, competent, and responsive when caring for patients (Meahger & Patron, 2004). The American Nurses Association (2012) argues registered nurses have a responsibility of taking overtime assignments when they are sure they can deliver to the ethical demands of their work. Although the American Nurses Association tasks nurses to ...

Individual Right versus Collective Good and the US Policy of Mandatory Overtime Regulation in Nursing Profession

Individual Right versus Collective Good and the US Policy of Mandatory Overtime Regulation in Nursing Profession

Individual rights are those rights that one holds even if he/she belongs to a certain group of people. On the other hand, collective good is what the group majority regards as right or desirable regardless of how its members are differentiated (Griffiths, 2012). Historically, these concepts have remained controversial as they are being witnessed in the policy of mandatory overtime regulation in nursing profession (Griffiths, 2012; Feutz-Harter, 2012). According to Bae, Brewer and Kovner (2011), before 2010, nurse overtime was essential to control chronic ...