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The maintenance of good body health is a key to the prosperity of an individual. Good health is not a key to prospering of individuals but it also makes a general transition in the growth of production of a country. This implies that poor health provision definitely may cause low productivity at the individual levels that translates to be national poor production. Therefore, better health care to the people form the foundation of numerous achievements. The health care provision has been a jungle of confusion and compromise that has resulted to lose of human lives at a alarming rates. Due to the existence of these conditions, the lives of the patients have always been sacrificed by the institution of health care providers with their staff members. Following the above revelation, the contents that follow in this paper are dedicated to address the issue through implementation of better plan in the nursing system. (Arthur and James, 1994)
Quality of services to the patients in hospitals is very crucial in the lives of a person. The delivery of quality healthy care services has great impact to the live of an individual, family as well as the society. The society expects to get the necessary assistance from the health care centers. Though this is their expectation, disappointments and other related gestures are not rare occurrences. The tendency of improving health care to the society has been of major concern to the community. This has lead to numerous institutions getting involved in the struggle to achieve such a goal. Both governmental and non-governmental organizations together with private institutions have been in the struggle to contain the problem of diseases and other disorders. The endeavors of the efforts to combat the problems of diseases might be hampered by several factors leading to poor vanquished battle on the fight against the disease control. (Landergan, 1997)
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Hospitals and dispensaries play certain major role concerning the health of people. They offer the people from the community a number of services which include medical treatments, counseling and advisory services to the patients. This means that hospitals have a core number of activities which are required to development of a healthy community. Despites the significant role attached to institutions of health provision, a number of challenges are being experienced. (Arthur, and James, 1994)
The delivery of quality service has been hindered by the problems that are associated with the management of the institution. The delivery of better health care service demands high investment to provide the services. The cost that is incurred in order to deliver the service involves both the acquisition of qualified personnel. However, facilities and other important incentives are essential to offering patients' services of great worthiness. Generally, the delivery of standard services has been a combination of effort by the patients and the management of the health institutions that coordinate the operation. (Scharf, 1997)
In every better performance of the work, health care provision requires much devotion on the patients' attendance. Many a times, the work of the health care has been difficult making it a field of argument. The delivery of better services has been like a play with tossing of the responsibility throughout the whole systems of the organization. Some of the claims are raised upon the patients due to their inability to cater for their healthy services. Moreover, a lot complains have also been raised on the competence and accountability of the nurse. The jargon on the system has been agitated by some management problem which nurses think that the management at higher do jeopardize their job through restrictions on regulations as well as work loads and remunerations. Although, there are many issues that surround the delivery of quality service, the main one arises the way of staffing the institution. (Landergan, 1997)
The level of staffing the health institutions is major determinant at of the quality of services rendered to patients. Like in any other organizations, the amount of work that is delivered by each individual should be in respect with the work budget ratios. The balancing of the workers and their work loads in the health institutions is vitally important. This reduces the chance which arise leading poor attendance of the patients. Furthermore, overloading of the health workers is dangerous not only to the patients concern but it also affects the health of the health care providers. Health care providers such as nurses and doctors find its difficulty to deliver the services when working under the pressures of work overloads. A part from working in hurry so as to fulfill the need of the patients, they develop other complicated disease problems such as hypertension and heart problems.
Low staffing in hospitals
Staffing in the hospital is necessitated by the need to maintain healthy of the patients and that of the nurses together with other staff officers at right conditions. Although there are genuine reason that are overt to government and other associated bodies about staffing the health institutions, the problem of staff ratios to patients has been a persistent one.
