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    The document discusses several key factors that influence the quality of nursing care, including communication skills, work environment, opportunities for advancement, and productivity/burnout prevention. Effective communication is important for proper patient interaction and handling stressful situations. The work environment, including factors like teamwork, work hours, stress, and supervision quality also affects care. Providing advancement opportunities and stimulating work that avoids burnout helps nurses remain engaged and provides high quality care.

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    The document discusses several key factors that influence the quality of nursing care, including communication skills, work environment, opportunities for advancement, and productivity/burnout prevention. Effective communication is important for proper patient interaction and handling stressful situations. The work environment, including factors like teamwork, work hours, stress, and supervision quality also affects care. Providing advancement opportunities and stimulating work that avoids burnout helps nurses remain engaged and provides high quality care.

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    The document discusses several key factors that influence the quality of nursing care, including communication skills, work environment, opportunities for advancement, and productivity/burnout prevention. Effective communication is important for proper patient interaction and handling stressful situations. The work environment, including factors like teamwork, work hours, stress, and supervision quality also affects care. Providing advancement opportunities and stimulating work that avoids burnout helps nurses remain engaged and provides high quality care.

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    Factors Affecting Quality of Nursing Care

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    The document discusses several key factors that influence the quality of nursing care, including communication skills, work environment, opportunities for advancement, and productivity/burnout prevention. Effective communication is important for proper patient interaction and handling stressful situations. The work environment, including factors like teamwork, work hours, stress, and supervision quality also affects care. Providing advancement opportunities and stimulating work that avoids burnout helps nurses remain engaged and provides high quality care.

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    The passage discusses several factors that influence the quality of nursing care such as communication skills, work environment, opportunities for advancement, productivity, and burnout prevention.

    Several factors are discussed including the significance of communication, work environment, opportunities for advancement, and productivity.

    Proper communication is important for nurses to properly interact with patients, staff, and other hospital guests. It also allows nurses to remain calm and professional during difficult situations.

    FACTORS AFFECTING QUALITY OF NURSING CARE

    INTRODUCTION
    Quality refers to excellence of a product or a service, including its attractiveness, lack of defects, reliability, and long-term durability. Florence Nightingale introduced the concept of quality in nursing care in 1855 while attending the soldiers in the hospital during the Crimean war.

    Nurses are health care professionals responsible for a variety of patient care duties and patient education They work at establishments such as hospitals, private practices, laboratories, nursing homes and clinics. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, nursing is the largest occupation in health care. Several factors influence the quality of nursing care.

    SIGNIFICANCE OF COMMUNICATION
    Regardless of the level of nursing education (nurse assistant, practical nurse, registered nurse or nurse practitioner), all nurses take courses in medical ethics, patient care and basic communication skills. These classes prepare nurses to properly interact with hospital staff, patients and other hospital guests.

    Nurses have a lot of patient interaction, and even when in difficult or stressful situations nurses need to remain calm and professional. If nurses aren't properly trained to handle stressful situations or communicate effectively with patients and co-workers, their ability to provide outstanding patient care is at risk.

    WORK ENVIRONMENT
    A poor work environment definitely affects the quality of nursing care. Factors such as poor teamwork, excessive required work hours, stress, lack of work flexibility and quality of supervisors all affect nursing quality. Nurses provide better care to patients if they look forward to coming to work each day. Hospitals can make life easier for busy nurses by providing add-ons such as childcare, a fitness center and other perks.

    Advancement Opportunities
    Opportunities for advancement are essential in the field of nursing. Positions in nurse supervising and nurse management should be made available to nurses with a strong work ethic, a history of excellent patient care, demonstrated leadership skills and proven teamwork skills.

    An opportunity to gain more experience and expand work duties is both stimulating and rewarding to nurses who have proven their dedication to nursing and caring for patients. Nurses who are not given the opportunity to advance may begin to dread coming to work and performing the same duties repeatedly. This attitude can result in poor patient care.

    PRODUCTIVITY
    Nurses should remain stimulated and given different tasks to perform throughout their shift. Performing the same tasks could lead to boredom. In contrast, excessive productivity causes burnout. Burnout results from a poor work environment, stress and lack of personal time.

    Burnout is preventable. Nurses can avoid burnout by being compensated for continuing education, having more time to spend with family and loved ones, having a better work environment and having opportunities to discuss and conquer work stresses.

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