Nursing shortage

The national nursing shortage is an ever-growing concern, and it is essential for healthcare organizations to confront the looming issue. Possible solutions to the nursing shortage include retaining older nurses who are looking to retire, increasing the amount of students graduating from nursing schools, and drawing nurses back to the bedside who have left the nursing workforce (Hatcher, 2006). Leaders must assess the nursing turnover in their organization, and they must strategize on ways to retain

a tight smile from your charge nurse who then informs you that everyone has to take seven patients as there is simply not enough staff scheduled for that evening. Problem Across the country the nursing shortage continues to place an almost impossible burden upon those who are in the industry. This shortage causes nurses to take an unsafe amount

As a nursing student and a constituent, I am writing to convince you to support Bill H.R.959, Title VIII Nursing Workforce Reauthorization Act of 2017. It is a proposal to provide funding for grants for career advancement, not just for registered nurses, but also for licensed practical or vocational nurses, certified nursing assistants, and home health aides. It also supports extension of funding for nursing programs, including loan repayment, scholarships, internships, residency programs, nurse

According to the Nursing Economics, the nursing shortage is caused by an aging workforce, attrition of older nurses and lack of young people and minorities attracted to the nursing profession. Some solution they offered involved factors that affect job satisfaction and work environment (Allen, 2008). Along with solutions like recruiting from the new student population, removing barriers to admission, working with the media to explain partnerships between a university and hospital, new programs and

WHY IS NURSING SUCH A LUCRATIVE CAREER AND WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS TO BE A REGISTERED NURSE IN AMERICA? The 21st century has really seen a turnover revolution in many careers and particularly in healthcare industry. The health care industry has seen a tremendous growth in its different fields and a technical and a technological advancement in its core practical sciences as Americans continue to seek more health care services, options and wellness. Nursing care is essential to the health and

Nursing shortage According to Canadian Nurses Association(2009), human health resources have stated that by the end of 2011 Canada will experience shortage of 78 000 registered Nurses (RN) and shortage of 113 000 nurses by the end of 2016. Globally there will be shortage of 4.3 million health care workers. It was also shown that approximately 38% of new graduate nurses leave their workforce within the first year of employment (Lavoie-Tremblay, Wright, Desforges, Gelinas, Drevniok & Marchionni, 2008)

Every patient needs care, love and support while admitted to a hospital. With the lack of nurses, the patients are barely getting the proper care, love, and support he/she deserve. The nursing shortage has a huge impact on patient care. It does not give the nurses a chance to tend to the patients’ needs like the nurses should or would like too. Nurses work long hours in a highly stressful state, that causes team members to be fatigue, get injured, or have dissatisfaction of the work place. With nurses

registered nurses (RNs) are in short supply, and the shortage is expected to increase to 29% by the year 2020 (Akinci & Krolikowski, 2005). Although nursing homes have traditionally utilized Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), higher acuity patients have caused nursing homes to rethink staffing levels across the board. Due to demographic changes and an increased population of adults 65 and older, the American Health Care Association projects the need for nursing home personnel to increase more than 60% from

The problems some of the hospitals are facing is the shortage of nurses. This is a concern for the nurses, patients, and the hospitals. Nurses and other health care professionals use medical terms to give information to their patients. In Nursing, there are a variety of terms used frequently in this field. Medical abbreviations that are used are BID which mean twice a day, COPD is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, DNR do not resuscitate, ICU intensive care unit, nasogastric is a tube that leads

Nursing Issues and Trends: The Nursing Shortage Joanna Roberson Lindsey Wilson College Abstract Nursing shortage is a crisis that has been rumored for years. Unfortunately, there are many truths to this rumor and every nurse has been affected by this shortage at some point in their career. Just in recent decades the economy had led to the nursing shortage. The nursing shortage is needing Nursing programs and hospital programs to augment and graduate competent RN’s that can step into the