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    The purpose of my writing was to inform others on the current nursing shortage that is projected to increase in correlation the high demand for nurses. I used classifying, cause and effect, and comparing as my writing strategies throughout my paper. In terms of retirement, I classified retiring nurses and other aging baby boomers by classifying them both together into one big retirement section. The main idea of having the aging population in my body section of my paper was to show the significance

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    patients who died where with nurses who were assigned 4 patients, but 131 patients died when nurses were assigned 8 patients. (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/195438) Nursing shortage is a scary idea for everyone, but it has been a well-known problem to America for the past couple of years. The shortage has resulted from a number of factors but the main one is

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    Issue The nursing shortage is an issue that affects the quality of care that is given to a patient. We always hear about job dissatisfaction or nursing schools not accepting students be a factor of the nursing shortage, but there is a bigger factor and that is the baby boomer nurses who are on the verge of retirement. These baby boomer nurses will retire in the next couple of years and this will leave a big gap in the nursing workforce. This will cause the next big nursing shortage. According

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    Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Introduction Nursing shortage and turnover is an issue that has constantly and continually bedeviled the nursing leaders and managers. Without sufficient numbers in nursing, patient care and safety is considerably compromised, with lapses in service delivery, overworked and overwhelmed nurses more prone to making mistakes and across board dissatisfaction. Nursing shortage lads to nurse turnover because of the ones carrying our nursing duties are

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    Is Nursing Shortage Really Faculty Shortage? Potential Solutions As the United States’ population ages and the Affordable Care Act continues to be implemented the need to address the shortage of nurses and faculty is more pressing than it ever has been. However, this is multi-dimensional problem, to get to the crux of it; one has to ask what the major contributing factors to such shortages are and what can be done to prevent them? Perhaps the most significant influence to the nursing shortage is

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    States history, there have been a few instances of nursing shortages that were overcome; however, this forthcoming dilemma seems unpromising. In the Nursing Shortage video segment, The Journal of American Medical Association predicts a shortage of registered nurses by 2020 (Where Have All the Nurses Gone? [Video file], 2001). While nurses are crucial for the delivery of high-quality care to patients, because of a few influences a severe shortage of them is approaching if we don’t come up with solutions

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    Mallory Hampton Sandra Ward English 112 7 February 2017 A Nursing Shortage and its Effects Many people think that nursing is a field where jobs are always there. While this is true, right now it seems like there it a “shortage” of nurses. Is there a shortage of nurses? What caused the shortage? Does the shortage have any effects on the nurses? As I have been thinking about pursuing a career in nursing, these questions are something I have been wondering myself. Throughout this paper, I intend

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    After reviewing various literature regarding nursing shortages, there is a national problem. Huber speaks about the nursing shortages and discusses various contributors and strategies to fix the issues (2014). The various contributors would be nursing graduate numbers, aging nurses, and nursing recruitment/retention (Huber D. , 2014). There are currently not enough students graduating nursing school, this is due to limited faculty restricting enrollments, more push for bachelor prepared nurses

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    The shortage of nursing professional has been an ongoing crisis in many countries for the past decade. A number of countries, including the USA, have been working hard to increase the number of registered nurses in an attempt to rectify the situation and its possible impact on the health care system (CHAN, TAM, WONG, 2013). The two main places that are effected by the shortage significantly are the hospitals and long- term care facilities. Some causes due to staff shortage are stressful work environments

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    The Nursing Shortage and its Effect on the Nursing Profession With the ever-changing world of healthcare comes the numerous issues the nursing profession faces today. Just a few of these issues include economics, politics, epidemics of disease such as Ebola, and healthcare reform. One of the biggest issues within the nursing profession today is the nursing shortage. This issue is not only a concern for the nursing professional, but also a concern for the whole health care system as well as consumers

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