Literature Evaluation Table Research Assignment Paper

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Nursing shortage
The nursing field has been experiencing some challenges relative to the number of nurses that re working to offer patient quality care. Nursing staff shortages have been a global issue for some time now, with some of the nursing organization and administrative bodies making changes to the policies to try and deal with the crisis. This is a challenge that also leads to other huddles and in particular patient care quality, the well-being of the nurses and the general quality of the profession progression. There are number of researches that have been conducted to try and bring out the basic attributes of the challenge along with some subtle recommendations for the same.
Minnesota Department of Health. (2015). Hospital Nurse Staffing and Patient Outcomes. Retrieved from /url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjU9aiL7pvVAhXHvRQKHTmYBzAQFggnMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2F%2FPortals%2F0%2FDocuments%2Fpolicy-advocacy%2Fnursestaffing%2FNurse_Staffing_Levels_and_Patient_Outcomes_FINAL.PDF&usg=AFQjCNGECuReiS4941rqGkSBRq95oGWEZA
The department of health in Minnesota convened a meeting in which experts in the field were required to debate the best methodology of assessing the situation. The team was also required to review the various research material that exists relative to the situation and come up with a research methodology that would best collect data as pertains to the nursing shortage situation. the analysis in the paper includes the data collected from one of the hospitals among 39 that were requested to offer invaluable data. The report further indicates that there is a positive correlation between the patient outcomes and the nursing shortages. According to the report, high levels of nurse staffing were associated with low levels of patient mortality, less drug administration errors and reduced patient falls.
Lake, E., Germack, H., & Viscardi, M. (2016). Missed nursing care is linked to patient satisfaction: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals. Retrieved 22 July 2017, from /url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&ved=0ahUKEwj82qaf75vVAhVFPhQKHVv5BAYQFghvMAo&url=https%3A%2F%2F%2Flive%2Ffiles%2F110-lakegermackviscardi2016missed-nursing-care-and&usg=AFQjCNHj7HSBujl2xC6Tr6pYLKWOZ4lSww
Missed nursing care is one of the leading causes of poor satisfaction among the patients. Nurses are part of the primary care system and as such, have a subtle impact on the satisfaction of the patient. According to the study that was carried out Eileen, Hayley and Molly, the nurses are part of the primary care system and they affect the way that the patient care is delivered and hence the quality of the outcomes. In the study, the researchers try to establish the impact of missed care from the nurses to their patients. This is a crucial element and one that helps to better understand the impact of the nursing shortage on the quality of care to the patient. More importantly, it helps with understand the levels of satisfaction associated with the patients. The research findings indicate that missed care is one of the aspects that affects quality of care and patient satisfacti...