Importance Of Teamwork In Nursing Care

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Teamwork in any organization in this case health care is an essential element when it comes to sharing of workload and efficient patient care. Most units in any hospital setting have professionals with different experiences and coming from deferent backgrounds including training and culture. All these individuals with different ideas need to work to getter to achieve the organizational goal, it is a prerogative of the Manager in ensuring that this teamwork is achieve.

1.1 INTERNAL VARIABLES AFFECTING STAFFING.

a) The acuity and severity of the patient’s condition in the unit.
The cardiac intensive care unit mostly would have patients with some of the following conditions: post open heart surgery, irregular heart rhythm, post …show more content…

blood pressure), these need to be monitored as complications can occur at this stage. A prompt recognition and treatment of potential complications are a necessity. (Hardin, Kaplow. 2009). Assuming that the patient is still on strict bed rest, basic nursing care would be needed which would also have an impact on the quantity of staff, these basic nursing care include: regular turning of the patient to encourage blood circulation and prevent bed sores, personal hygiene to remove dead skin and oral …show more content…

The level 1 intensive care units in South Africa which are in the public sector have a patient/nurse ratio of 1:1 or 1:2. (De Beer, Brysiewicz, Bhengu, 2011). This point above stresses the importance of appropriate staffing in those units.

1.2 THE EXTERNAL VARIABLES AFFECTING STAFFING
I. Institutional policies
The policies of an institution with regards to their employment/recruitment policies, the retention of staff and remuneration would all a part in how the institution distributes its nursing personnel within its wards. Issues like long shifts, mandatory overtime has an impact on nurses living that institution and looking for other jobs. Young nurses are unhappy with shifts as these impact negatively on their family and social life. (Oosthuizen, Mokoka, and Ehlers, 2010)
II. Unsafe working conditions.
Some health institutions in South Africa more especially those located in the townships and those areas which have a high crime rate, have a problem or struggle to retain their more experienced nursing personnel nor are they able to attract new nurses. Nurses feel unsafe going to work in these areas.
III. Location and

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