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Importance of adequate Healthcare Staffing

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Staffing is the process of ensuring and assigning the right personnel with the right qualification to a job at the right time to ensure that the organizational goals are met. A healthcare facility needs adequate and safe levels of staffing to function well and assist both safely and efficiently. Adequate staffing levels ensure better care for patients and reduces nurse fatigue, prevent burnout, and increase patient satisfaction. It also helps in dealing with nurse retention problems in hospitals. Researches show that 40 % of the nursing units in the U.S are understaffed and many are inadequately staffed. inadequate staffing leads to higher rates of infections, patient falls, medication errors and even mortality as nurses have too much work to juggle and cannot spend enough time on each patient, resulting in missed care. The benefits of adequate staffing can not be emphasized enough some of them are: Increases Patient Satisfaction -  Adequate Healthcare staffing significantly improves p

Different types of healthcare facilities

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A healthcare facility refers to any place or location that provides services related to health including hospitals, clinics and any kind of healthcare centre. These may be owned by private organisations for profit, non-profit organisations or any individual also. Quality is important when choosing the best healthcare facility. Some facilities do a better job than others. You can learn about the performance of a particular facility by looking at its reports developed by state and consumer groups. There are many types of Healthcare facilities:       1. Hospitals -   Hospital is the ultimate healthcare facility providing special treatment to inpatients as soon as possible.      2. Medical nursing homes -  Medical nursing homes are institutions that have accommodation facilities and they provide treatment to inpatients with any medical condition.      3. Blood Banks -  Donors are allowed to donate blood and platelets that can be used most effectively for other patients.      4. Clinics and