The reviewed article aims to demarcate the relationship between the number of nurses in acute care facilities and the success of their patients. The current shortage of medical staff indicates the timeliness of the article due to the growth in the flow of patients (Driscoll et al., 2018). This issue is one of the major ones in the pandemic crisis. The authors of this article have all the necessary knowledge and academic credentials to assess this issue, and most are directly involved in the healthcare industry.
The article is published in a peer-reviewed source, and all of the research and literature that informed and supported the paper is also of high reliability. The coverage of the research topic is quite good, as the coverage of the material examined, from which the analysis was derived, included more than three thousand unique articles (Driscoll et al., 2018). The meta-analysis covered over 170,000 patients, allowing for an opinion on the need for nurses in specific situations (Driscoll et al., 2018, p. 2). The benefits of borrowing information for further development are maximized by consolidating a large amount of data in a convenient form for analysis.
Limitations of the reviewed study include the lack of the most recent statistics. In addition, sometimes special departments were combined with non-special departments, which could negatively affect the accuracy of the data (Driscoll et al., 2018). Moreover, in many of the sources used in the processing and collation of this study, there was heterogeneity in the NPR: calculations differed from one approach to another. Finally, the sensitivity factor to the presence of a nurse could be interpreted differently in the evaluated works, which could further harm the results.
Reference
Driscoll, A., Grant, M. J., Carroll, D., Dalton, S., Deaton, C., Jones, I., Lehwaldt, D., McKee, G., Munyombwe, T., & Astin, F. (2018). The effect of nurse-to-patient ratios on nurse-sensitive patient outcomes in acute specialist units: A systematic review and meta-analysis. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing: Journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology, 17(1), 6–22. Web.