IntroductionHealthcare organizations focus on providing safe, high-quality care to patients. Many organizational factors can directly affect patient care and outcomes, but one of the most important is the nursing staff. Low nursing staffing levels are a major problem I have encountered during my clinical and management experiences. There is a significant relationship between inadequate staffing levels and poor patient outcomes; however, as I have observed in my experiences, there may be increased awareness of this issue, but it has not been adequately addressed. To ensure patient safety and positive outcomes, as well as improve nurse satisfaction, it is imperative to effectively address low staffing levels. Data OverviewLow nursing staffing levels are a hospital-wide problem at St. Vincent Healthcare, particularly observed during my management hours with a house supervisor. One of the responsibilities of a house supervisor is to ensure efficient utilization and distribution of nurses between floors. So I had the opportunity to discuss in depth and personally observe a variety of causes and consequences of understaffing with my preceptor. One of the main reasons for understaffing appears to be related to finances; In addition to making patient safety a continued priority, St. Vincent Healthcare must also strive for strong financial results. There are certainly challenges when it comes to maintaining a balance between providing adequate staff to provide safe patient care and delivering services at a lower cost. Other causes of understaffing are conflicts between employees, management and/or leadership discrepancies, heavier patient loads/more serious patients, moving to other units or decreasing work.. .... amidst the paperwork...... y the training. This would require sufficient funding and time, as well as qualified instructors and appropriate frameworks. Nurses would have the opportunity to volunteer for cross-training and unit leaders would recruit anyone else deemed capable. Incentives and recognition could be provided to nurses who complete the program and have adequate cross-training. The evaluation of this solution would be done through annual skills checks and verbal evaluations. On a broader scale, staffing levels, nurse morale, job satisfaction/performance, patient outcomes, and costs should be evaluated to ensure cross-training remains beneficial. The low level of nursing staffing at St. Vincent Healthcare must be addressed, as nurses are essential to providing high-quality healthcare; a commitment to excellence would be further ensured through cross-trained nurses.