Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies.

Recommend one or more policy or practice changes designed to balance the competing needs of resources, workers, and patients, while addressing any ethical shortcomings of the existing policies.

There is a need to implement creative solutions that would balancing the competing needs while addressing the ethical shortcomings of the existing staffing policy. The first solution is incentivizing nurses to take on extra shifts and pick up bad shifts by increasing bonuses and earnings. This is important for reducing burnout among nurses and helping them in feeling that they are not overworked since it galvanizes nurses to take on the unpopular shifts while remaining happy (Masters, 2015). The second solution is investing in professional development and long-term training for nurses to enable them adopt innovative care approaches that reduce the low staffing pressures. Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges.The third solution is offering altered schedules to accommodate the professional and personal needs of nurses. Achieving and maintaining a profession and personal life balance for understaffed nurses is difficult, and the organization can help them to achieve this balance by offering altered schedules that enable the nurses to better accommodate both their professional and personal needs.Professional Nursing: Concepts & Challenges. For instance, nurses who are mothers with toddlers can be offered ‘mother friendly’ shifts to enable them spend more time with their children. Greater flexibility in shift start times and shift lengths can give the nurses some flexibility in choosing options that best meet their personal obligations that ensuring that they are happier with their work-life balance while promoting wellness and satisfaction (Black, 2016).