Not Enough Nurses
Recently in the past couple of years there has been a shortage of nurses. The American Association of College of Nursing states, “The U.S. is projected to experience a shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) that is expected to intensify as Baby Boomers age and the need for health care grows” (Rosseter). Since there are not enough nurses the nurses that we do have are overworked and have to work longer hours.
According to the ANA (American Nurses Association) there are six reasons that there is a nursing shortage. They are the economic recovery and the Affordable Care Act. The other three are employer changes, market changes and care coordination. But the main reason is the Baby Boomers, more and more of them are going to qualify …show more content…
It shows that nurses that work long hours have patient’s dissatisfaction. If nurses are working longer hours they are more likely to make a mistake (Gooch). The nurse are tired so they are going to be rushing to do their job to get home. And if they make a mistake they are going to be too tired to notice. . Gooch also states in her article that, “Furthermore, nurses working shifts of 10 hours or longer were up to 2.5 times more likely than nurses working shorter shifts to experience burnout, job dissatisfaction and intent to leave the job.” Which if more nurses leave due to long work hours that would not help with the nurse …show more content…
Because since we need more nurses it would be easy to get a job as a nurse. And people know this this so they would try and take classes to become a nurse. So that way they know they have a really good chance of getting a job as a nurse out of college. But then if a lot of people start trying to be nurses the people that really want to be, would not be able to find a job. Because everyone else took the already available jobs. Which seems like a good thing since there would not be a nurse shortage anymore. But there are going to even more nurses straight out of college, which are never going to be able to get jobs at
Recently in the past couple of years there has been a shortage of nurses. The American Association of College of Nursing states, “The U.S. is projected to experience a shortage of Registered Nurses (RNs) that is expected to intensify as Baby Boomers age and the need for health care grows” (Rosseter). Since there are not enough nurses the nurses that we do have are overworked and have to work longer hours.
According to the ANA (American Nurses Association) there are six reasons that there is a nursing shortage. They are the economic recovery and the Affordable Care Act. The other three are employer changes, market changes and care coordination. But the main reason is the Baby Boomers, more and more of them are going to qualify …show more content…
It shows that nurses that work long hours have patient’s dissatisfaction. If nurses are working longer hours they are more likely to make a mistake (Gooch). The nurse are tired so they are going to be rushing to do their job to get home. And if they make a mistake they are going to be too tired to notice. . Gooch also states in her article that, “Furthermore, nurses working shifts of 10 hours or longer were up to 2.5 times more likely than nurses working shorter shifts to experience burnout, job dissatisfaction and intent to leave the job.” Which if more nurses leave due to long work hours that would not help with the nurse …show more content…
Because since we need more nurses it would be easy to get a job as a nurse. And people know this this so they would try and take classes to become a nurse. So that way they know they have a really good chance of getting a job as a nurse out of college. But then if a lot of people start trying to be nurses the people that really want to be, would not be able to find a job. Because everyone else took the already available jobs. Which seems like a good thing since there would not be a nurse shortage anymore. But there are going to even more nurses straight out of college, which are never going to be able to get jobs at