The Role of Nursing Interventions in Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections

Abstract

Nurse staffing is essential because nurses may provide direct patient care at their bedsides, minimize adverse outcomes, boost patients' health, and increase their satisfaction with healthcare services. The caliber of patient care and the shortage of registered nurses (RNs) are among the issues raised by the restriction of rising health spending on nurse staffing. Maintaining high-quality patient care while reducing the number of nurses on staff is challenging. (American Nurses Association, 2018).
Minimum ratios of nurses to patients in acute care facilities were authorized by California law in 1999, and in general medical-surgical units, in 2005, the ratio was increased to five patients per nurse. Nursing hours per patient day (NHPPD), or the minimal nurse-to-patient ratio, is legislated in other nations as well, including Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and Germany. (Simon, M., & Mehmecke, S., 2017).