For this reason hospital administrators need to ensure that each healthcare facility is provided with a sufficient amount of staff, an organized schedule, and an electronic system to reduce the workload of healthcare workers and gives patients the best possible care.
The shortage of staff, especially of nurses and physicians has a negative impact on workload and patient safety. Not having enough health care workers can make doctors to not fully evaluate the patient and order unnecessary test, because they did not have enough time to examine the patient's’ case. In the article “U.S HealthCare Worker Shortage Escalating: Sterling Warns Medical Practitioners to Rapidly Reverse Low Employee Retention.” The author emphasize that the U.S healthcare workers shortage crisis is expected to intensify as baby boomers join the ranks of senior citizens and 27 million Obamacare insured Americans place a demand on an already overburdened healthcare system. Additionally, as older healthcare employees retire, there will be fewer qualified staff to replaced them. It is important to