From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Holiday policies since its implementation, had been impacting the community continuously; the nurses in the hospitals, in order to get their shifts settled and set up their break schedules, are having a hell of a time. A nurse uploaded the footage, that showed how just TWO nurses were responsible for a total of TWENTY-SEVEN patients, it’d caused a wide discussion online. And still, the night and the graveyard shifts of the nursing occupation, with the extremes in the patients to nurses ratio, it’d been going on, a long time already.
Compared to those more advanced countries, Taiwan didn’t have any legislatures entailing the nurses to patients ratio, and, a lot of the hospitals are using the “standards of the facilities” or the “hospital evaluation norms” as the basis of nurses to patients ratio, causing the day shifts to be able to maintain the constancy rates, but for the night shifts, the nurses needed to take on almost 1.5 times more patients than the nurses that worked the day shifts, this sort of an exhaustion in the workplace, it’s a wonder, that a lot of the certified nurses had, refused to work in the hospitals (close to sixty percent), and, there’s that constant high rate of quitting and transfers out of the nurses working alongside the patients.
On top of that, the nurses needed to perform tasks outside of their nursing expertise, like answering calls, getting patients what they needed, along with other unnecessary tasks and paperwork too. The hospital owners usually have enough money to hire the needed number of personnel, although filling up the spots of nurses is no easy task, but, the managers can have an even number of nurses working the shifts, and the nurses should be able to, focus on treatment of patients.
A lot of the foreign researches also showed, that as a nurse needed to care for a huge number of patients, getting overworked, it can easily cause negligence, and once negligence occurred, the higher managers of the hospital, along with the patients AND the families blamed the nurses on the hospital floors for not following protocol, that they didn’t do what’s within their duties. But, the owners of the hospitals, as well as the government should NO longer hold on to the belief that “needing good workers, but wanting to pay them a low wage”, because this would not just be sacrificing the manpower of nurses, it’s also of grave concern, for the patients’ wellbeing and health as well.
you may think that this is funny, but it’s actually, really, sad, if you think about it…not my “sign”…
So, because the nurses are overworked, and, there’s this HIGH patient ratio per nurse in the hospital, that, is what’s caused this, and, because of how demanding the work in the nursing industries became, there are, almost, NO one who want to become a nurse now, because they’d gotten blamed for not taking good care of the patients, when they’re having the ratio of 12 to 13 patients per nurse, and that, is just bad, besides, who would want to stay at a hospital, when the patient to nurse ratio is that high, right???