Nurs 6053 Wk 2-3 Response To Discussion: Organizational Policies And Practices To Support Healthcare Issues

Replies: Discussion - Week 3Golda Trompeta Nurses undergo a huge amount of pressure in care delivery even in the absence of resource competition. This is because nurses are a resource themselves and putting in long hours is draining. The time available to a nurse is a limited resource, therefore nurses have to balance between pursuing their nursing career, taking care of themselves and taking care of those, they love. Over and above these demands the competition for resources in health care means that nurses have to take higher patient ratios and meet the expectations of their managers. As you have elaborated in your post, one of the main stressors arising from competition for resources in healthcare is compassion fatigue. The consequences of compassion fatigue are detrimental to the patient and to the health care system as a whole because it leads to poor health outcomes.ReferencesBoyle, D. A. (2015). Compassion fatigue. Nursing, 45(7), 48–51. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nurse.0000461857.48809.a1Carolyn CheathamThe competition for resources in health care requires nurses to do a lot with little resources. This situation is naturally stressful and has a great impact on nurses because they have learned to care for others. Therefore, in the face of competition for resources in