Staffing Shortages and the Introduction of Acuity-Based Staffing

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Staffing shortages in the healthcare sector have been a persistent problem in the United States (Foki et al., 2020). One of the affected sectors is nursing, with the issue of nursing shortage emerging as a concern that influences the quality of healthcare outcomes across the nation's states. Despite ongoing advancements and policies aimed at improving healthcare delivery in hospitals and community settings, this remains a significant source of concern (Drennan & Ross, 2019). It is important to note that understaffed healthcare institutions lead to increased healthcare complications. For instance, increased patients in an understaffed nursing workforce trigger burnout and stress. The change suggested in this project is to introduce acuity-based staffing to address the problem. This approach considers other diverse components, including nurse availability and facility-based resources, for supporting the change proposal.
Further, Gan (2020) asserts that this problem became more evident during the COVID-19 pandemic when the human workforce resources suffered extreme pressures due to the workload that overstretched and overburdened these stakeholders. Thus, the study's objective is to examine if increasing the number of nurses can address nurse staffing issues and if it can promote stability for health systems. At t...