Nursing/staffing Shortage in Heath Care Facilities

Nursing/staffing shortage in heath care facilities
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Introduction
The health care industry plays a critical role in at national, regional and international economy. However, cyclical economic contractions, inadequacy in medical technology, shift in public policy and local market factors are associated with different and contradictory pressures on the delivery of the much anticipated levels of the health services through the medical practitioners.
Economic Trends on Recession of Health Care
This economic contraction includes changes in the demand for the access of the medical services over recessions on organization’s and practitioners’ financial status. For instance, reports from markets across illustrating the sort of imperfect storm: falling income due to decreased demand for less elective care practices, lead to failure of patients to pay their medical bills, significant losses in the revenue that would be accrued, and less charitable giving, hence cutting the anticipated funding to meet the medical requirements in form of facilities and payments to the health practitioners and rest stakeholders (Abele & Barbacci, 2004).
A survey conducted by World Health Organization (WHO) received only a small number of responses from 12,000 physicians polled, but the fraction that responded did indicate that they witnessed seeing less patients affording health services to full measures since the recession began. Another survey by American Academy of Family Physicians also reported that fewer patients were seeking inpatient and elective service in 2009-2010. Similarly, physicians reported seeing more patients without insurance or with inadequate insurance being unable to pay full requirements for their care. As a result, some health providers are inclined to compensate for the lost income through provision of shoddy and below par medical services over extended time. Still, the management in most of the health units deals with the shortage by lowering the volumes of the services or even cutting the staff within a single unit. While this approach does not cut across the challenges in the health care in relation to the services required to counteract unpredictable health issues in a population, patients keep on streaming in large numbers seeking for the medical care.
Scaling back the capital matters create a balance between revenue generated and the wages for health workers has seen health units compromising with the standards of the health care that is needed to patients. These changes include slicing the capital requirements improving clinical and technology systems. This means that the tools and equipments used to perform various health operations then do not meet the attributes necessary for a given purpose. Poor health service means increased mortality and disease invasions to the population. For example, with inadequate tools and technological knowhow, it is difficult to study and instill necessary measures to control a deadly outbreak. This case is similar to Ebola outbreak of 2014 that claimed hundreds of thousands lives in the whole world (Singer & Baer, 2007).
Moreover, an economic contraction in the health sector is a hard to comprehend since it runs counter to the sustaine...