The shortage of nurses is one of the main problems experienced in many parts of the world. It affects the health delivery system as pediatric patients receiving nursing care at home settings are forced to wait a long to be attended to by the nurses (Drennan & Ross, 2019). This increased duration of waiting worsens the health condition of pediatric patients. Through the capstone project, interventions can be laid down to solve this problem. One of the interventions that can be utilized to curb this problem is introducing in-service training programs for the nurses. In these in-service training programs, the training aim would be to teach the nurses how to handle more than one patient at a time. The cross-trained nurses in the program develop new skills and confidence in the delivery of health services (Barbour & Schuessler, 2019). One of the main organizational barriers experienced is limited in-service training programs to improve the nurses’ quality of service delivery.
The primary method of achieving this training is taking the nurses through a series of classroom teachings. In these classes, lectures would be done by experienced nurse specialists. The time frame for the training would be about four months. In this training program, the nurses would be taught the essential skills necessary to perform other job functions. Their training will help improve the nurses’ competency and ensure improved quality of service delivered by the nurses even if multiple pediatric patients in home settings are attended to by a single nurse (Fukada, 2018). The newly employed nurses in the field would significantly improve the quality of service delivered as the teachings would give them the necessary skills to perform effectively in the area. The program would help save resources as it would reduce the need to employ more nurses.
References
Barbour, C., & Schuessler, J. B. (2019). A preliminary framework to guide implementation of the flipped classroom method in nursing education. Nurse Education in Practice, 34, 36-42.
Drennan, V. M., & Ross, F. (2019). Global nurse shortages: The facts, the impact and action for change. British Medical Bulletin, 130(1), 25-37.
Fukada, M. (2018). Nursing competency: Definition, structure and development. Yonago Acta Medica, 61(1), 001-007.