The rationing of nursing care phenomenon in the light of scientific reports – personnel shortages, system requirements, consequences – PART II

MILECKA, Dorota, HOMĘTOWSKA, Henryka & MANULIK, Stanisław. The rationing of nursing care phenomenon in the light of scientific reports – personnel shortages, system requirements, consequences – PART II. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2023;23(1):11-21. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2023.23.01.001

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Received: 03.04.2023. Revised: 10.04.2023. Accepted: 24.04.2023. Published: 24.04.2023.

The rationing of nursing care phenomenon in the light of scientific reports – personnel shortages, system requirements, consequences – PART II

Zjawisko racjonowania opieki pielęgniarskiej w świetle aktualnych doniesień naukowych – niedobory personelu, zapotrzebowanie systemowe, konsekwencje – CZĘŚĆ II

Dorota Milecka^1,*, Henryka Homętowska², Stanisław Manulik³

¹ Department of Nursing, Institute of Medicine, State Higher Vocational School in Glogow,

67-200 Glogow, Poland

E-mail: d.milecka@pwsz.glogow.pl

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8284-0107 

² Specialist Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration in Głuchołazy,

48-340 Głuchołazy, Poland

E-mail: hometowskah@gmail.com

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5910-570X 

³ Division of Family and Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Wroclaw Medical University, 51-618 Wroclaw, Poland  

E-mail: stanislaw.manulik@umw.edu.pl 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4292-161X 

Corresponding author:

Department of Nursing, Institute of Medicine, State Higher Vocational School in Glogow, Piotra Skargi 5, 67-200 Glogow, Poland; E-mail: d.milecka@pwsz.glogow.pl 

Abstract

Rationing of nursing care is a widespread and growing phenomenon whose causes are multifaceted and whose consequences are serious. Nursing rationing is defined as withholding or failing to perform necessary nursing tasks due to insufficient time, staffing, and/or inadequate skills. Nursing rationing is also defined as omission, delay, failure to complete, which qualifies as an error of omission. Unfinished nursing care has many negative consequences for patients, nurses and organizations. The presented series of three papers aims to show many important aspects related to rationing of care. This second part of the series of rationing of nursing care phenomenon will address the nursing shortages and demand for nursing care, nursing staffing rates and government policy, the effects of inadequate nursing care on patients and nursing staff, and the economic and social effects of inadequate nursing care.

Keywords: rationing nursing care; staffing shortages; system demand; implications; research reports.