Approaches To Nursing Shortage

Leadership is about getting people to understand and believe in your vision and to work with you to achieve your goals while managing is more about administering and making sure the day-to-day things are happening as they should.

Nursing shortage is a global problem facing all health care system and the impact on nursing professional and patient care outcomes cannot be over emphasized. Despite all effort made by the ANA and health care institutions to address the issue of nursing shortage there seems to be no change and the problem still exist hence there is every need to implement a new plan to address the problem of nursing shortage (ANA, 2014). The project plan is aimed at introducing a policy plan that will help in eradicating nursing shortage. This paper will focused on nursing shortage’s impact on nurses, patients and nursing profession, and a proposed project that will focus on eradicating the problem of nursing shortage through the use of mentoring program for high schools and colleges student.

Nursing leaders are crucial to any nursing organization. They motivate, empower, influence, and communicate the organization’s vision to create change within the organization. Great nursing leadership depends on great nursing leaders. This paper will define nursing leadership and describe leadership characteristics. It will further depict the democratic style and transformational theory of nursing leadership. While exploring leadership in action, this paper will illustrate the aspects of nursing.

There is a difference between leadership and management, although they are similar in some ways. While, they both want to achieve common goals, influence people, and work with people, they are different. Managers aim to create consistency and

The current and growing shortage of nurses is posing a real threat to the ability of hospitals, long-term care facilities, and others to provide timely access to quality care. Nurse staffing shortages and nurse turn-over contributes to the growing reduction in the number of staffed patient beds available for services, increasing costs, and rising concerns about the quality of care. Health care organizations highly depend on nurse managers and leaders to reverse this trend. This paper discusses the reasons for nursing shortage and turn-over, different approaches to solve this issue, and my personal philosophy about this issue.

Leadership vs. Management, are they the same? No!. “A leader focus on setting goals and direction, challenging the norm, and seeking new ways of working towards the goals. On the other side, Managers specialize on conformance to the standards. They manage teams and individuals, organizing, directing and controlling to achieve goals” (EBA, 2016).

The scenario that will be evaluated over the course of this paper, involves a hospital that has recently been experiencing staffing issues. The time frame that this organization struggles to staff is from the hours of 1530 to 2330. They are debating on what solution they can use to best solve the issue. The solutions that they have available include: hiring new permanent staff, hiring short-term staff, floating staff from other departments, or offering over-time and bonuses to the current staff. The remainder of this paper will determine and recommend the best route for this organization to take, and will come to this conclusion based off of current statistics and relevant data.

The Oxford English Dictionary describes the word leader as a “person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country” and describes the word manager as a “person responsible for controlling or administering all or part of company or similar organization”. Each of these meanings are very close in proximity however many in the business world have different definitions for each of these roles. Although they are different they are linked and are complementary to each other (Oxford Dictionary (American English)).

The nursing shortage has been growing drastically, with abundant amount of nurses leaving their position vacant and there being few incoming nurses. Many believe the nursing shortage is a temporary event to help make a field seem better. In reality, a nursing shortage is not taken into consideration has been increasing as the years pass. Russel C. Coile Jr affirms that a nursing shortage can be devastating to the quality of care given to patients, as shown in a survey by the American Nurses association: “… 75 percent of RNs feel that their quality of care at their facilities has declined over the past two years…” (1). With the decline of nurses in the work field, many are suffering from getting the proper health. If the nursing shortage keeps

With the problem of nursing shortage in the health care setting, this can have a long term effect on the organization budget as a result of reduction in the quality of care and overall outcome of the patient’s health. The number of nursing staff it takes for the facility to run effectively, should become a priority for the organization. As the acuity level of the patient’s entering the hospital continues to rise, the number and skills of nursing staff should increase to meet the patient level of care. Having lower numbers in nursing staff, can result in higher incidences of hospital acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection, decubitus and falls with injuries. After conducting an interview with two co-workers, there

Leadership and management go hand in hand but is not the same thing, but are linked and compliment each other.

through the wound care being performed and missed a major step in caring for that patient, leading to infection. The effect of increased nurses to patients has been shown many times to improve patients’ outcome.

The ongoing instability evidenced from the high mobility of qualified nurses in the nursing workforce has raised many questions about the issue of nursing shortage and nurse turnover (Gates & Jones, 2007). The paper below discusses the issues of nursing shortage and nurse turnover. The paper also describes how leaders as well as managers in the nursing fraternity and other leaders can resolve those problems effectively and the different applicable principles, skills, roles of the leader, and theories of leadership and management.

The differences between the two are; management you are to provide order and consistency to organizations, and leadership is to produce change and movement. A good example the difference between the two is shown on figure 1.2, where is strictly labels the difference between the management functions and leadership roles. Like mentioned above, management is to plan, organize, staffing and control, and leadership is to establish, align and motivate individuals. Again, they both overlap with having to work with people and working toward a

Nursing is probably one of the most revered caring professions in the United States and elsewhere today. Many are attracted to this line of work by an inner drive to make a difference in the lives of others and thereby to gain a sense of meaning in their own lives. Despite this, however, there are significant shortages in the profession today. Several factors influence this, including the aging Baby Boomer generation, training staff shortages, and stress levels when entering the profession for the first time.