Impacts of the Competing Needs and Addressing the Competing Needs

The needs of the staff and patients and the organization’s resources are all affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic influences employee dissatisfaction, burnout, and increased workload (Edmonds et al., 2020). A policy could resolve such competing needs by securing an optimized nurse-to-patient proportion, which would result in better nursing staff in the organization and improved patient care (Edmonds et al., 2020). The policy may specify a specific nurse-to-patient ratio in the ICU.

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