Nurse workload and inexperienced medical staff members are associated with seasonal peaks in severe adverse events in the adult medical intensive care unit: a seven-year prospective study. faisy c, davagnar c, ladiray d, et al. int j nurs stud. 2016;62:60-70.. This literature review explores the effect that nurse staffing patterns have on the frequency of medical errors, fatigue, and nurse burnout. the evidence indicates that inadequate nurse staffing leads to adverse patient outcomes and increased nurse burnout.. The possible role of burnout in nursing errors 2013 kelley hoskins university of central florida the possible role of burnout in nursing errors by kelley n. hoskins 17.6% of which occurred during medication preparation or administration (2010)..
Burnout among clinicians (both nurses and physicians) has consistently been linked to patient safety risks, and some studies show that higher numbers of patients per nurse is correlated with increased risk of burnout among nurses.. The rate of reporting medication errors among nurses was far less than the medication errors they had made and this indicates a gap between the actual rate of medication errors and the reporting rate among nurses. we recommend increasing the number of nursing staff, adjusting the workload of the nurses in the emergency department and. "by reducing nurse burnout, we can improve the well-being of nurses while improving the quality of patient care." while the study uncovered an association between nursing staff burnout and infections among patients, it did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship..
