What is the Research Problem? How significant is the problem to nursing practice? At the beginning of MacKusick and Minick’s article, the research problem is stated as “nursing workforce projections indicate the registered nurse (RN) shortage may exceed 500,000 RNs by 2025 (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN], 2010; Cipriano, 2006; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2002)” (2010). The problem of the nursing shortage causes multiple complications within the nursing field. Among those complications, the most noticeable ones are as follows: increased workforce demands, job dissatisfaction, and problematic relationships between the nurse and the health care team (2010). These complications are the most important due
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Findings From an Initial Qualitative Study on Nursing Attrition” is that there is a lack of data existing about individuals who are no longer employed in nursing (2010). As a result of this limited data, MacKusick and Minick’s research went to include a “thorough examination of the nurse’s perceptions regarding the decision to leave” to try and fix the issue of the research gap (2010). This gap is associated with the significance of nursing practice, for a lack of data cannot address the problems that may arise within the scope of …show more content…
When broken down into primary and secondary sources, there are 24 primary sources and 3 secondary sources. The primary sources are individual authors, or a collection of individual people, who wrote the material. Within the article a majority of the sources are primary. For example, on the reference page in the article, the first reference mentioned is a person and therefore is a primary resource. For secondary sources, there were not many. An example of the secondary source is the second reference on the reference page in the article. This reference is the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) and its article “Faculty shortages in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs: Scope of the problem and using strategies for expanding the supply”. This is an example of a secondary source due to the fact that it is an organization or a collection of people gathering data from primary sources. Although there are not literature reviews, this article is well supported with an array of primary and secondary
Findings From an Initial Qualitative Study on Nursing Attrition” is that there is a lack of data existing about individuals who are no longer employed in nursing (2010). As a result of this limited data, MacKusick and Minick’s research went to include a “thorough examination of the nurse’s perceptions regarding the decision to leave” to try and fix the issue of the research gap (2010). This gap is associated with the significance of nursing practice, for a lack of data cannot address the problems that may arise within the scope of …show more content…
When broken down into primary and secondary sources, there are 24 primary sources and 3 secondary sources. The primary sources are individual authors, or a collection of individual people, who wrote the material. Within the article a majority of the sources are primary. For example, on the reference page in the article, the first reference mentioned is a person and therefore is a primary resource. For secondary sources, there were not many. An example of the secondary source is the second reference on the reference page in the article. This reference is the American Association of College of Nursing (AACN) and its article “Faculty shortages in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs: Scope of the problem and using strategies for expanding the supply”. This is an example of a secondary source due to the fact that it is an organization or a collection of people gathering data from primary sources. Although there are not literature reviews, this article is well supported with an array of primary and secondary