{"id":8032,"date":"2020-01-07T14:19:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/uncategorized\/how-does-nurse-burnout-affect-patient-care\/"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T19:19:52","slug":"how-does-nurse-burnout-affect-patient-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/article\/how-does-nurse-burnout-affect-patient-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Wie wirkt sich Burnout bei Krankenschwestern auf die Patientenversorgung aus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York nurses experience \u201cextremely high rates of burnout,\u201d according to a national labor union. This burnout <u><a href=\"\/de\/praxisbereiche-2\/behandlungsfehler\/\">affects the patients<\/a><\/u> they attend to, as well as the nurses themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Many nurses must deal with poor working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of nurses said they have been victims of workplace violence or bullying, and a majority of them said the organization did not handle the incident well.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of problems like these, most nurses say job stress affects their health. Many nurses exhibit <u><a href=\"https:\/\/money.yahoo.com\/nurses-america-shortage-burnout-195301886.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Post Traumatic Stress Disorder-type symptoms<\/a><\/u>.<\/p>\n<p>From one perspective, there is no nursing shortage.<\/p>\n<p>There are over three million registered nurses in the United States, and nursing is one of the fastest-growing professions in the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, this growth might not keep pace with growing demand, especially since a wave of Baby Boomer nurses will probably retire in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in the conditions,\u201d explained nursing union official Michelle Mahon.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Medical Professionals and Medical Negligence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Frequently, nurses are the bridge that connects doctors and patients. If that bridge is faulty, the possibility of medical negligence in general, and misdiagnosis in particular, increases.<\/p>\n<p>Misdiagnosis is a serious problem in the United States. The overall misdiagnosis rate is about <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarp.org\/health\/conditions-treatments\/info-2017\/second-diagnosis-saves-lives-fd.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20 Prozent<\/a><\/u>. Some commonly misdiagnosed conditions include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Krebs<\/strong>: According to some, the cancer diagnosis error rate might be twice as high as the overall mistake rate. To many medical professionals, cancer is a lifestyle or genetic condition. So, unless the patient has obvious risk factors, a cancer diagnosis is not in the cards.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Herzkrankheit<\/strong>: Roughly the same dynamics apply in this context. If there are no huge red flags, most medical professionals conclude that the patient could not possibly have heart disease. On a similar note, many patients do not experience signature symptoms, such as chest pains.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Head Injury<\/strong>: Car crashes are by far the leading cause of head injuries. Frequently, these wounds are misdiagnosed as shock from the accident or even early-onset dementia. As a result, the symptoms progress and the injury is more difficult to treat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fundamentally, a negligence case is not about \u201cblaming\u201d the nurse, doctor, or anyone else for the victim\u2019s condition.<\/p>\n<p>We all make mistakes, and we must all face the consequences of the mistakes we make.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Nursing Homes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The nursing shortage is already affecting many long-term care facilities. As many as <u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/health\/most-nursing-homes-are-not-adequately-staffed-new-federal-data-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">70 Prozent<\/a><\/u> of these places are dangerously understaffed.<\/p>\n<p>Understaffing has a snowball effect.<\/p>\n<p>This environment adversely affects morale. Remaining nurses are overworked, and the staff exodus sometimes resembles rats leaving a sinking ship.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, nurses suffer even more extreme symptoms and become burned out more quickly.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in understaffed environments, some facilities assign duties to unqualified professionals. For example, CNAs (certified nurse assistants) or other paraprofessionals might perform tasks that registered nurses should handle.<\/p>\n<p>Understaffing, and the problems it spawns, directly contributes to a number of nursing home negligence issues, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dekubitus<\/strong>: If patients roll over in bed every few hours, pressure ulcers are not a problem. But many patients cannot turn themselves over, and many understaffed nursing homes do not send people on regular rounds. Untreated bedsores quickly become life-threatening.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Resident-on-Resident Violence<\/strong>: Many residents have child-like mentalities. Petty squabbles over things like a preferred seat in the dining hall might become violent. And, a tiny bit of force might cause serious injury. Understaffed nursing homes do not have the resources to break up such fights before they escalate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once again, nursing home neglect is not anyone\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is a lack of ordinary care.<\/p>\n<p>And, victims should not bear the financial and emotional cost of their own recoveries.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Legal Options for Patients<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Generally, the hospital, nursing home, or other employer is legally responsible for misdiagnosis and understaffing-related injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Typically, the facility owner is a large out-of-state conglomerate which has little or no relationship to the community it serves.<\/p>\n<p>Employer liability in general, and <em><u><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/wex\/respondeat_superior\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reagiere \u00fcberlegen<\/a><\/u><\/em> in particular, is one of the most common vicarious liability theories in negligence claims. This doctrine has two basic prongs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Mitarbeiter<\/strong>: For tax purposes, employees are usually people who receive W-2s. For negligence purposes, employees are people that the employer controls. This broader definition includes independent contractors and even most unpaid volunteers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Umfang der Besch\u00e4ftigung<\/strong>: Similarly, any act which benefits the employer in any way is within the scope of employment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other employer liability theories, which often apply in assault and other intentional tort claims, include negligent hiring and negligent supervision.<\/p>\n<p>Medical negligence is a serious problem in several different contexts. For a free consultation with an <u><a href=\"\/de\/kontaktiere-uns\/\">erfahrener Anwalt f\u00fcr Personensch\u00e4den in New York<\/a><\/u>, contact Napoli Shkolnik . Attorneys can connect victims with well-qualified doctors, even if they have no insurance or money.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laut einer nationalen Gewerkschaft leiden New Yorker Krankenschwestern unter \u201eextrem hohen Burnout-Raten\u201c. Dieses Burnout betrifft sowohl die Patienten, die sie betreuen, als auch die Pflegekr\u00e4fte selbst. Viele\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[780],"tags":[851,881,953,964],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medical-malpractice","tag-personal-injury-lawyers-near-me","tag-doctor-mistakes","tag-medical-malpractice","tag-personal-injury"],"acf":[],"page_builder_type":"gutenberg","gutenberg_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}