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Adding An Admission Nurse To Help Alleviate Staff's Workload Stress, Zharmaine Zafra

Nursing Research & Professional Development Conference

Background: Getting a lot of admissions during shift change challenges and stresses nurses because they feel they cannot not give adequate care to patients.

Local Problem: Clinical nurses on a surgical unit at a large, urban, Level 1 trauma center, expressed concern about heavy workload during admissions. Heavy workload during admission affects the stress level of the staff which could negatively impact the quality of care provided to all the patients.

Method: To reduce the workload stress of the nurses, the unit implemented an admission nurse role. Prior to implementation, a unit RN surveyed the nurses about how an admissions …