Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

Identify and describe at least two competing needs impacting your selected healthcare issue/stressor.

There are three competing needs that impact HAP. Firstly, time demands whereby time acts as an obstacle that prevents medical personnel from completing patient care duties. In this case, the care duties compete with the time needed to engage in other activities such as hand washing. With time being a limitation owing to limited availability of hygiene stations, nurse-patient ratios and patient acuity demands, there is a need to explore strategies that would improve care delivery. Secondly, patient overcrowding and low nurse staffing levels are a concern since they lead to poor management that are associated with high adverse outcome rates for HAP. In acute care settings, understaffing among medical personnel can facilitate HAP occurrence through relaxed attention to basic infection control measures and care delivery. This occurs because the number of assigned personnel are fewer than the number of staff members necessitated by the workload. Thirdly, the use of medical equipment, such as endotracheal incubation and mechanically assisted ventilation, that are necessary to help the patient maintain life bit present opportunities for HAP incidences. The three competing needs that have been identified have an influence on HAP incidence (Black, 2013).