Economic shortage

The Result of Mentorship within the Nursing Profession Felisha Rawlerson Widener University Department of Nursing Abstract The nursing shortage worldwide is a cause for concern because as the population becomes more ill and more dependent on medical treatment, we are relying on the cornerstone of healthcare: nurses; to sustain this demand. Numerous factors go into the dissatisfaction of nursing; from nursing burnout, understaffing and cumulative healthcare needs- just to mention a few.…

from a shortage now but will be much worse in the future. There are several factors that I am aware of before research, and several I will learn. From what I already know, Nurses today are forced to work more with less resources resulting in mental and physical exhaustion and high turnover rates. Some nurses decided to leave the field all together. What needs to be done to elevate the shortage today and the stress from the current working conditions? If there is such a nursing shortage…

Individual Literature Review Group Research Topic and Problem The research question my group and I formulated is, what are the interventions to decrease nurse burnouts in the health care setting? According to the National Nurses United, “Burnout is categorized as physical, mental and emotional exhaustion” (Ericksen, 2015). A nurse that experiences a burnout strongly effects his or her emotions and decreases their motivation, which can lead to a decrease in patient care. Furthermore, this stress…

article from 2011, states that the estimated turnover cost per nurse ranges from around $22,500 to almost $77,200. However, in Hillman and Foster’s article, they state that the cost can be as high as $145,000. In Pine and Tart’s article in Nursing Economic$, it says that the cost of replacing an RN can be 75-125% of their annual salary. That is for one nurse! If you have turnover rates of 50% or more that adds up to a huge loss for a hospital. However, the cost of a residency program is…

Nursing Implications Caring for Loved Ones For nurses, the implications of death are an important part of the caregiver role. Often, family of the deceased look to nurses for hope, explanation, and as an outlet for the frustration surrounding death. Each patient, each story, each family is different. It is vitally important to remember this and make sure that each loved one and family member is given the appropriate space and time to mourn the loss of their loved one (Fast, 2003). Nurses are…

In the past, to supplement the shortages of nurses, nurses from foreign countries have been brought into the U.S. in order to fill the gaps in care givers. This has been termed nurse migration and has been steadily increasing since the 1990s. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has impacted healthcare…

To me, being a nurse is more than a job or career. It is a continuous learning process that I am willing to take on each day, to embrace life changing events and miracles. Touching the lives of others whether the help is gratitude or remains unnoticed, the pride I hold in saying “I’m going to be a nurse” is unmeasurable. Nursing is more than a profession of integrity and compassion; it’s a privilege to be responsible for someone else. My pursue in nursing, first initiated when I was young and my…

In many nursing facilities, hospitals are challenged with inadequate staffing. According to Yonder-Wise (2015), staffing involves hiring and implementing capable employees to meet the needs of patient care. Staffing and scheduling are primarily the responsibility of the lead charge nurse and the unit director. Scheduling is the task of implementing the staffing plan by assigning employees to work specific hours and days. Adequate staffing is needed to assure timely identification of any change…

Workload is the amount of work someone or something has to perform. Nurses have to get a certain amount of time to get their work done. Nonetheless, what would happen if nurses have a heavy workload and do not have the necessary time to perform it? It will be a total disaster because nurses would not perform well in their work. Nurses all over the world have too big of a workload. Lack of sufficient professional preparation and imbalance on their tasks increases the workload, and nurses,…

of contracts. Despite the opportunity that many believed was to come from the system, it resulted in a negative utilization of Mexican immigrant workers. The Bracero Program planning first immerged when growers claimed there was a rise of labor shortages due to World War II. The American Farm Bureau, states that…