Nurse Safe Staffing Act

[Name of the Student]

[Name of the Institute]

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Nurse Safe Staffing Act

Introduction

The aim of the paper is to discuss the importance of nursing in the safety and health care of the patients. The paper discusses the importance of the Nurse Safe Staffing Act (2011) for the improvement of the nursing services in the healthcare sector by implement staffing plan in order to provide adequate staffing in each of the units of the Medicare hospitals. In addition to it, the paper extricates the role of the different stake holders on the enactment of the bill regarding the nurse staffing in the hospitals of the United States of America. The paper highlights the social, cultural environmental as well as ethical dimensions of the issue regarding the staffing of the nurses.

Discussion

Nursing is the most crucial profession of the healthcare sector that has its focus on the care of individuals as well as families. The aim of the nursing is to take medication care of the communities. Nursing has widened scope and diversified practice area as well as they have different level of authorities regarding the prescription. Nursing has crucial and positive influence on the health of the patients. This urgency induces the need of the adequate staffing of the nurses as the quality of the care provided to the patients is completely dependent on the staffing of the nurses. If the nurses are highly qualifies and experienced and they are having adequate rights then they will cater their patients with more care and concentration.

It is evidenced that the safe staffing nursing ratios provide the better workplace environment as well as it provides high quality patient care. A study reveals that the California nurse staffing ration provides less probability of deaths caused by the improper handling of the nurses to the disease symptoms. Moreover, in the medical care, increase in one registered nurse (RN) in the nursing staff reduces approximately 24 percent of time spent in the intensive care unit (Fact Sheet, 2011). In addition to it, it is evidenced that the understaffing of qualified nurses endangers the health of the patients. . Moreover, the health of the nurse itself gets affected by inadequate staffing. It is the ethical as well as social issue regarding the concern of the health of the patients as well as health of nurses. Being under esteemed, nurses are leaving their professions. Prominent deduction in the budgets of the nursing staff as well as issues evolved due to the shortage of the nurses induces the ANA to fight for legislation that will trigger the hospitals managements to focus on unit by unit plan for the staffing of the nurses. Inadequate staffing induces the need of a bill related to the adequate staffing of the nurses in order to make the care system more effective as well as to provide high quality care to the patients.

On Mar 2, 2011, Mrs. CAPPS introduced the bill in the house or representatives to amend the XVIII title of the Social Security Act, Medicare. ...