Running head: NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 1 NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT 2 Phase 1 Paper Assignment Karen Lezcano Florida National University February 1st, 2020 Nursing Research Project Introduction Nursing just like any profession faces numerous challenges daily. Nurses are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that they work diligently and professionally to ensure that their clients are satisfied with the services that they deliver. They are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that the patients that visit their premises get quality services that they deserve. However, these services come at a cost; they face a myriad of challenges that they have to work fully despite these challenges to satisfy their clients. Therefore, this research paper analysis some of the problems that nurses face in the daily execution of their duties. Identification of the Problem Nurse faces a myriad of challenges in their daily execution of duties. To ensure that they discharge their duties perfectly all these challenges must be identified and effective measures are put in place to ensure that the challenges are taken care of. The major problems that most of the medical facilities are the issue of understaffing. Nurses have faced challenges in terms of duties assigned to them in comparison to their numbers. Studies conducted have also portrayed that there are shortages of nurses in the medical facilities. However, the challenges that these nurses face are varied in different nations and towns, there are those nations that have surplus while there are those towns and nations that have a high shortage of these important service providers in the healthcare facilities. The impact of these shortages has also resulted in further challenges for the nurses. In this regard, one of the major challenges that these nurses face is the need to work for long hours due to the shortage of employees at the medical facilities. The few available nurses must work in shifts and endure long working hours to ensure that they meet the desired goals of the institution are met. The work of nurses calls for one to be sober and cognitive in decision making (McLelland et al. 2015). However, with a situation where nurses are required to work for long hours, work in shifts such that they can sleep for a while and resume their duties. This is a worrying trend for the nurses because their cognitive ability and judgment as normal human beings are likely to decline when overworked. Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions are also likely to increase with time as they work overtime. Besides that, the shortages of nurses in healthcare facilities which calls for overworking of these nurses to ensure that patients are fully taken care of, usually lead to an increase in hazard and dangerous accidents taking place taking ...

1. Running head: NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT
1
NURSING RESEARCH PROJECT
2
Phase 1 Paper Assignment
Karen Lezcano
Florida National University
February 1st, 2020
Nursing Research Project
Introduction
Nursing just like any profession faces numerous challenges
daily. Nurses are usually tasked with the duty to ensure that
they work diligently and professionally to ensure that their
clients are satisfied with the services that they deliver. They are
usually tasked with the duty to ensure that the patients that visit
their premises get quality services that they deserve. However,
these services come at a cost; they face a myriad of challenges
that they have to work fully despite these challenges to satisfy
their clients. Therefore, this research paper analysis some of the
problems that nurses face in the daily execution of their duties.
Identification of the Problem

2. Nurse faces a myriad of challenges in their daily execution of
duties. To ensure that they discharge their duties perfectly all
these challenges must be identified and effective measures are
put in place to ensure that the challenges are taken care of. The
major problems that most of the medical facilities are the issue
of understaffing. Nurses have faced challenges in terms of
duties assigned to them in comparison to their numbers. Studies
conducted have also portrayed that there are shortages of nurses
in the medical facilities. However, the challenges that these
nurses face are varied in different nations and towns, there are
those nations that have surplus while there are those towns and
nations that have a high shortage of these important service
providers in the healthcare facilities.
The impact of these shortages has also resulted in further
challenges for the nurses. In this regard, one of the major
challenges that these nurses face is the need to work for long
hours due to the shortage of employees at the medical facilities.
The few available nurses must work in shifts and endure long
working hours to ensure that they meet the desired goals of the
institution are met. The work of nurses calls for one to be sober
and cognitive in decision making (McLelland et al. 2015).
However, with a situation where nurses are required to work for
long hours, work in shifts such that they can sleep for a while
and resume their duties. This is a worrying trend for the nurses
because their cognitive ability and judgment as normal human
beings are likely to decline when overworked. Therefore, the
chances of making poor decisions are also likely to increase
with time as they work overtime.
Besides that, the shortages of nurses in healthcare facilities
which calls for overworking of these nurses to ensure that
patients are fully taken care of, usually lead to an increase in
hazard and dangerous accidents taking place taking place during
their execution of duties. For instance, nurses working in
laboratories are exposed to hazardous chemicals, viruses, and
pathogens as they seek to unveil the diseases of their patients
(Shoorideh et al. 2015). Therefore, if they are overworked they

3. are likely to make mistakes which might result in situations
where the nurses might get injured or make the wrong diagnosis
for their patients. This is a situation that can make the running
of the facility unimaginable due to the prevailing situation.
Significance of the Problem
Nurses are key role players in the successful running of the
healthcare facilities. All the healthcare facilities require the
services of the nurses to ensure that the needs of the patients are
taken care of. In this regard, the problem of understaffing of
nurses at the medical institutions is a major problem that these
institutions should be able to manage to ensure that the desired
results are achieved. Medical facilities require that they use
these nurses to discharge their duties perfectly; their shortage is
an issue that institutions see a huge challenge towards meeting
their goals.
Shortages of nurses in healthcare organizations mean that these
institutions are unable to effectively discharge their duties as
expected. Experienced nurses have higher chances of perfectly
discharging their duties, institutions that have insufficient
nurses' means that they can only meet the ever-increasing
number of patients in hospitals by overworking these nurses.
Therefore, the chances of making poor decisions as nurses are
also high as they get fatigued when they are overworked (Alavi
et al. 2015).
The issue of understaffed nurses is an issue of not only an issue
of concern by medical facilities but also by the states and health
organizations in various sectors. Healthcare is an issue of
concern to all individuals as we are all expected to be of good
health so that we can produce. States advocate having enough
medical staff so that all medical situations can always be easily
managed whenever they arise. Adequate nurses in the medical
facilities usually make it easier to manage any medical
emergencies that might arise thus making it easier to have a
healthy nation that's productive in all corners.
Besides that, understaffed nurses mean that it's difficult for
these professions to have time for their research and improve

4. their skills. Medical facilities are always facing challenges on
daily basis; there are medical situations that require substantial
time for the nurses to analyze the samples before coming up
with a solution to the prevailing situation (Lu et al. 2015).
Therefore, in such cases where the number of nurses matters at
any medical facility the process of determining the required
results is usually difficult for the management. This ends with
the facility not being able to satisfy their clients in the long run
the facilities end up with reduced clients and low income if it's
a private facility.
Purpose of Research
This research aims to determine the problems that nurse’s face
in their daily discharging of duties. Nurses play key roles in our
well-being in society and conducting research to determine the
problems that they face is only meant to ensure that they
improve in the services that they deliver. This study has shown
that the major problem that they face is understaffing in most of
the nations. Major hospitals have been unable to effectively
discharge their duties because they have few nurses to
effectively discharge their duties.
Besides that, as a result of this study, relevant institutions and
bodies have an opportunity to learn of the challenges that
nurse’s face in their daily discharge of duties. In this regard,
learning of the shortages of the nurses in the medical facilities
indicates that relevant bodies and institutions should play their
roles perfectly towards ensuring that there are adequate and
qualified nurses for the medical facilities to ensure that at the
end the desired goals can always be achieved
(Skundberg‐Kletthagen & Moen, 2017). As a result, this study
provides an opportunity for the relevant bodies to initiate the
right measures that will make it better in the running of the
medical facilities.
Research Questions
This research seeks to determine the most effective ways that
would ensure there is effective running of the desired goals.
Nurses are critical for the provision of medical services in the

5. facility. However, despite enormous studies being done on the
roles of nurses in society, there have been limited studies that
have been done on the exact challenges that nurses face.
Therefore, this study seeks to answer the question, what
challenges nurses face in their daily discharge of duties?
Besides that, there also the need to answer the question, what
are the benefits of having adequate and qualified nurses in the
medical facilities?
Effective answering of these questions will provide a clear road
map for the future nurses and relevant authorities. This only
means that future nurses have a chance to be fully equipped and
be well-staffed and experienced as they shall be provided with
all the necessary tools and resources that would result in the
desired needs of their clients being fully taken care of and on a
timely basis.
References
Alavi, A., Bahrami, M., Zargham-Boroujeni, A., & Yousefy, A.
(2015). Pediatric nurses' perception of factors associated with
caring self-efficacy: A qualitative content analysis. Iranian
journal of nursing and midwifery research, 20(2), 232.
Lu, D. M., Sun, N., Hong, S., Fan, Y. Y., Kong, F. Y., & Li, Q.
J. (2015). Occupational stress and coping strategies among
emergency department nurses of China. Archives of psychiatric
nursing, 29(4), 208-212.
McLelland, G., Hall, H., Gilmour, C., & Cant, R. (2015).

6. Support needs of breastfeeding women: Views of Australian
midwives and health nurses. Midwifery, 31(1), e1-e6.
Skundberg‐Kletthagen, H., & Moen, Ø. L. (2017). Mental health
work in school health services and school nurses' involvement
and attitudes, in a Norwegian context. Journal of clinical
nursing, 26(23-24), 5044-5051.
Shoorideh, F. A., Ashktorab, T., Yaghmaei, F., & Alavi Majd,
H. (2015). Relationship between ICU nurses' moral distress with
burnout and anticipated turnover. Nursing Ethics, 22(1), 64-76.
Due Date: 11:59 p.m. EST, Sunday of Unit 4
Points: 100
Overview:
For this assignment, you will select five folktales (one from
each of the five categories) and two fables
to evaluate, seven (7) stories total, and then answer a set of
questions. There are 14 questions
included, each worth approximately 7 points.
You are encouraged (as always) to use actual hard copies of the
books. However, for your
convenience, you may use the options provided in the unit.
Instructions:
• First, select (5) folktales to evaluate – one from each of the
following categories:
o Cumulative
o Pourquoi
o Beast Tale

7. o Wonder Tale
o Realistic Tale
• Next, review Aesop’s Fables provided in the unit and select
two (2) fables to evaluate.
• Then, in the assignment link in Blackboard, answer the
following questions using complete
sentences for each folktale you chose:
o Provide the name of the folktale and category, author, country
of origin, and a brief
description of the story.
o Describe the morals and cultural values of the folktale.
Answer the following questions using complete sentences for
each fable you chose:
o Provide the name and a brief description of the fable.
o Using your own words, describe the moral of the fable.
Requirements:
• Use your own words and include the in-text citation for any
resources you may use when
answering some of these questions.
CHS203 – Children’s Literature and Language Arts
Unit 4 Assignment: Folktales and Fables

8. o For example, if you are citing your textbook, use the in-text
citation: (Kiefer & Tyson,
2019) and the reference: Kiefer, B. Z., Tyson, C. A., Parsons
Barger, B., Patrick, L. &
Reilly-Sanders, E. (2019). Charlotte Huck’s children's
literature: A brief guide (3rd ed.).
New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.
• Be sure to use appropriate paragraph breaks and keep your
writing free from spelling and
grammatical errors.
Be sure to read the criteria below by which your work will be
evaluated before you write and
again after you write.
Assignment Question Rubric
Each question of the assignment will be graded using the
following criteria:
CRITERIA Deficient Needs Improvement Satisfactory
Proficient
(0% - 59%) (60% - 79%) (80% - 89%) (90% - 100%)
Content
(40%)
Subject matter is

9. minimally
addressed.
Opinions are
offered, but
arguments lack
scholarly backing.
Subject matter is
adequately
addressed.
Arguments are
partially supported
by scholarly
research.
Subject matter is
fairly well
addressed.
Arguments are
supported by
scholarly research
but could be
further elaborated
with specific
details.
Subject matter is
thoroughly
addressed.
Arguments are
well elaborated
and fully
supported by
scholarly research
and specific
examples.

10. Structure and
Flow
(40%)
Flow is poor.
Paragraphing is
inappropriate.
Transitions are
minimal or absent.
Significant
redundancy is
evident.
Flow is adequate.
Paragraphs may
be too long or too
short. Transitions
are minimal, and
redundancy is
evident.
Flow is good.
Paragraphing is
mostly
appropriate.
Transitions are
present, and
redundancies are
minimal.
Flow is excellent.
Paragraphing is
clear, and

11. transitions are
smooth and
consistent.
Inappropriate
redundancies are
absent.
Clear and
Professional
Writing and APA
Format
(20%)
Errors impede
professional
presentation;
writing and
formatting
guidelines are not
followed.
Numerous errors
exist that interfere
with a
professional
presentation.
Writing and
formatting
guidelines are
being followed but
have a few errors
that do not

12. impede
professional
presentation.
Writing and
formatting
guidelines are
being followed
and are clear and
professional. APA
compliant with no
to minimal errors
when applicable.