Labor shortage

Nursing entails compassion, sacrifice, empathy, love, patience, advocacy, and care. All healthcare workers, especially nurses, are taught early in their careers quality patient care is always number one priority. Despite the emphasis on communication as a way of effectively providing care, some nurses do not follow protocol. This causes devastating effects not only for the nurse’s coworkers, but, unfortunately, the patient. Occasionally, lack of communication is inevitable within the medical…

It is projected that these shortages will only increase over the next decade, which is frightening to learn, especially as the population continues to grow and continue to live longer (Zinn et al., 2012). In order to have this issue improved, ideas have emerged to help to resolve the nursing shortage. This discussion not only presents itself with finding a remedy that will alleviate this, but also looks at the legality…

workers to think of moving out of their job and move to a better one. Nurses are having more work burnout imposed and are dissatisfied with their work because of the occurring nursing shortage. Aiken et al agrees with the nursing shortage is inputting more stress into the nurses who are still holding their job: “The shortage of hospital nurses may be linked to unrealistic nurse workload. Forty percent of hospital nurses have burnout levels that exceed the norms for health care workers” (1).…

However, getting everyone in an organization to communicate well together can often be a difficult task to achieve. With the ever changing diversity within the workforce, people are often required to work with people who may be different than them and that may carry different views. This is why it is extremely important to build and enforce communication skills in the workplace. When two people have different outlooks, it is very common for the communication between the two to be vague or absent…

Vacation scheduling may mean that there is a shortage of available nurses to do the jobs (Waddillgoad, Suzane ,2017). When there are many nurses on vacation or taking vacation at the same time, there will be more stress for the remains working nurses in the department as there are a lot of work to be completed by a few nurses. I think when people are in stress, they cannot control their thoughts. A nurse may be anger at workload, and frustrated, and a nurse may have verbal abuse. I believe that…

Most people have a longing to get to the top of their company, whether by hard work and climbing the ladder, or by not what you know, but who you know. The longing to be on top is very common, but not only for monetary gain, but for one to achieve a certain level of power. It is an instinct that most of us have within, and it will be unleashed when we feel that where we are currently is not where we want to stay permanently. Most people come into a company wanting to be noticed and being seen…

a patient meets and is the person that they have the most contact with during their hospital stay. Patients develop a rapport with nurses and in many cases have a hard time adjusting to the new nurse on duty (Dubois et al., 2013). There is also a shortage of nurses that will only get worse before it gets better. There are many nurses that are nearing retirement…

The Nursing Code of Ethics and When “Doing Good” May Cause Harm “An ethical dilemma is a situation in which an individual is compelled to choose between two actions that will affect the welfare of a sentient being, and both actions are reasonably justified as being good, neither action is readily justified as being good.” (Butss & Rick, 2012) Nurses can face ethical dilemmas everyday within their practice. Canadian Nurses Association [CAN](2008) states when nurses are in the situation of an…

Introduction Trying to find a theory that can be used and have been used to help with such great problem such as nurse shortage was a challenge. After studying and reading many of the theorist models, Jean Watson nursing model stood out the most. The nurse literature reveals when supporting nurse staffing, it can warrant a quality of care from the nurses for their patients (Douglas, K. 2011). This task for the hospital administrator all the way down to the nurse manager, has come a great…

Recently, I was placed in a difficult situation with a co-worker. It is often very intimidating to begin a new position as a nurse in a new healthcare organization. Unfortunately, clichés are often formed by employees. Last December I was in new employee orientation. My first day I arrived early in order to be prepared and to meet the nurse that would be training me on the unit. It was much unexpected that the nurse walked in two minutes before her shift started and she was unaware that she was…