Nursing shortage is a major issue impacting safety of patients, the performances of nurses, and the care processes. Healthcare organizations require fully engaged nursing staff to decrease the stressful hospital workplace environment that decrease the efficiency and effectiveness of the quality of care, or preventing medical errors. This paper will examine the effects of nursing shortage to remaining nursing staff . These effects may cause more nurses to leave their jobs. The benefits of a nursing theory that can help nurses to reduce job stress is studied. It is very important to establish a common understandings of the government, the executives of the healthcare organizations about the impacts of nursing shortage to have the right strategies
