Describe how the change has affected patients, the healthcare system, and the role of the nurse.

CHANGES IN PATIENT CARE It is believed that the personal care and attention given by nurses to patients help in the recovery of said patients from the illnesses that they are suffering from . True enough , not only do nurses provide the ailing patients with medical assistance , but their mere presence provides the patients with moral or emotional support while they struggle with their sickness . It becomes apparent that nurses and the way they perform their assigned task have a tremendous impact when it comes to patient care . Due to the increase , however

, in the population it cannot be denied that patient care has changed drastically . This change and the way it affects patient care is supported by findings and examples

As correctly pointed out , between 1945 and 1965 our nation experienced the phenomenon known as the Baby Boom . After World War II the economy was good people could afford more things and larger families . The birth rate skyrocketed in those two decades ( Issues In Health Care . This increase in the population affected the purchasing power of the people . Hence , people would still come to the hospital for treatment , but they don 't necessarily have enough resources to give out in exchange of the services that they receive from hospitals . Truly how to provide health care to all the people who are not paying taxes to support the system is a dilemma ( Issues In Health Care . It is noted that providing people in need of health care cannot be dispensed with despite the decrease in the purchasing power of the people . This dilemma has led to a series of effects in the field of patient care which would be discussed by this

Knowledge and Skills of the Nurse As mentioned above , through time , the number of patients necessitating nursing care has increased . This result can be traced to the increase in the population . If the number of patients increase , then the number of nurses staffed in a hospital would necessarily have to be increased by the hospital in to make sure that each and every patient confined in a hospital would be monitored closely by a specific nurse . This clearly , cannot be done at once without any setbacks . Increase in the number of nurses employed by a hospital would call for an increase in expenses as the nurses would have to be compensated properly and sufficiently , given the task assigned to them . Of course , not a lot of hospitals are in the capacity to shell out extra money in to employ a massive amount of nurses . Hence , although there may be an increase in the number of nurses employed by hospitals , it cannot be said that the same is proportionate to the increase in the patients that come to the hospital for treatment

As the number of nurses is no longer in proportion to the number of patients that come to the hospital , patients no longer receive a substantial amount of supervision from nurses . True enough , if one...