Nursing shortage

A healthcare organization that is adequately staffed is able to provide the highest quality of care possible. Addressing the nursing shortage involves including many different stakeholders. A few topics that need to be considered when looking at the nursing shortage are the rational for a certain number of staff, an assessment of clinical specialties, assessment of clinical need and geographical need, timeline to achieve goals, and facilitators and barriers to proper nurse staffing. For this scenario

The waiting lists for nursing programs are very long. Sometimes students have to wait 2-3years to start that program, on another hand nurses always complain they are short stuff. According to Moore (2015), the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that 526,800 more nurses will be needed by 2022 -- an increase of 19.4 percent from 2012 -- to help keep up with patient growth and replace those who leave. One of the reason for the future nursing shortage is that there are not enough faculty to teach

The nursing shortage is not a new problem to hit the medical field. It continues to burden the nursing profession across the globe. As the baby boomers reach an age of retirement, nursing is going to see a large portion of currently employed nurses retiring from positions in the upcoming years. As expressed by Jewell (2013), 57% of nurses in Canada are between the ages of 40 and 60 (p. 325). In other words, more than half of employed nurses are nearing retirement, and there is a lack of nurses

Nursing shortage and Nurse Turnover 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

are current nurse’s shortage, and that it will continue to go downwards as time progress, due to lack of federal funding for education and faculty in the nursing discipline. The recent American Journal of Nursing (AJN) article titled “Welcoming the Class of 2021: Prepare for Uncharted Waters” by Kennedy, Maureen Shawn M.A, RN, FAAN (2017), highlights some prominent issues as it relates to nursing shortage across America and how it relates to the quality and safety in nursing. According to the American

that reveals a trend of a nursing shortage in the near future and this is an obvious problem. A recent study by Buerhaus et al. (2009) predicts that by the year two thousand – twenty five the United States will have a major nursing shortage and this shortage could possibly be greater than the nursing shortage in the sixty decade. The assigned article for this week, addresses the fact that although university enrollments continue to rise, the attrition rate from nursing programs nation wide is staying

areas in the healthcare field is our nurses, yet everyday many are subjected to unfair working conditions such as excessive working hours, low wages, and lack of support from within an organization. This ultimately results in many of those in the nursing field seeking employment in other organizations, or switching career fields all together. This can result in a lack of nurses, which not only puts the patient at risk, it can also reflect negatively on an organization as a whole. The New York Times

It is no secret that the United States is currently experiencing a shortage of nurses . “The U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics ( 2009 ) estimated that more than one million new and replacement nurses will be needed by 2018 to meet the increased demands of the health care workforce” (). The stressful conditions under which nurses work, due in part to the nursing shortage, are among the risk factors that contribute to nurses’ abuse of illicit drugs and alcohol. Nurses are unique

know that there is 126, 000 nursing positions unfilled in hospitals across the country ( Jackson, 2006) and the average nurse is 46 years of age? ( Alexandra, 2006). The public needs to see that the shortage of nurses is a major issue that is only going to get worse if something is not done about it. It has been shown that since the beginning of the shortage there has been an increase in mortality rates due to a increase of poor patient care. If this nursing shortage continues it will only decrease

Nursing shortages and patient safety Heavy workloads for nurses is a major problem in our health care system due to, “increase demands for nurses, inadequate supply of nurses, reduced staffing, increased overtime and reduction of patients stay in hospitals” (Gurses, 2008). The demands for nurses are also increasing due to the aging population. It was estimated that between 2000 and 2020, the United States population would grow by 31 million people with the population ages over 65, to increase by