Nursing shortage

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…

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…

section of the medical sector often has few professionals due to the shortage of trained specialists. Notably, sonographers often overwork in their departments to meet tight deadlines and receive numerous patients who need their services. The scarcity of the professionals has led to increased turnover in the medical section, causing additional responsibilities that result in stress among the existing workers. As such, shortage of employees results in occupational burnout since the medical…

workforce shortage has diminished the competitiveness of the US global economy and threatened national security. Not all analysts agree with the three reports, arguing that STEM executives are causing the domestic STEM workforce shortages. This paper analyses both arguments regarding the domestic STEM workforce shortage: that foreign workers on H-1B visas are beneficial to our labor supply since US schools are not producing enough STEM graduates, and that the domestic STEM workforce shortage is…

in her 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…

An ideal strategy to help the growing of nursing within Canada is career shadowing, in which can lead to reduction and the shortage of nurses. Buchan and Aiken (2008) explained the strategy the Center of Health affairs use to solve the problem for the shortage of nursing. Their ideal strategy to solving the problem for the decease for nursing was to use Career shadowing. Some of the groups that was most focused on was mostly high school student (Ohio high school). During their research, what…

There are many issues that affect the profession of nursing, however there is one issue that has been affecting the nursing profession for decades and this issue is the nursing shortage in the United States. There has always seemed to be a nursing shortage in the United States, until the recent recession that started in 2007. The Great Recession of 2007 made it so older nurses did not retire when he or she normally would have and other nurses came out of retirement to help support his or her…

The field of nursing faces many challenges on a daily basis. One of the biggest challenges at the present time entails the appropriate quantity in demand to care for ailing health concerns. Curtailing off this problem is the effect on the field of nursing academia. Strategies based on evidence, identification of gaps in literature, and implications for clinical practice are of critical importance. Background Research Topic For many years, a deficiency in the number of nurses has been…

workforce has been a concern not only for the nursing profession but also of the various interested parties and levels of government as well (Fox & Abramason, 2009). It should be noted however, that the nursing shortage is not new to the profession. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that the nursing shortage “has the potential to deepen in the coming years” (Buchnan & Aiken, 2008, p. 3263). Some research studies have shown that the shortage would impact the delivery of health care…

Exploring the Accelerated Nursing Program Introduction to Nursing Karissa Rice University of Missouri – Kansas City Over the years, nursing has become a growing field. There has been talk since I can remember in high school about the shortage of nursing. The field is requiring more nurses as previous nurses are retiring and a variety of field’s are expanding. The shortage is still seen today, it is thought the nursing shortage will become more serious within 10 years (Ellis & Hartley,…