Nursing shortage

1 The nursing profession is and has been experiencing what is often described as an unendurable shortage of clinical nurses. Throughout the past few decades, U.S. hospitals have faced cyclical shortages of nurses, hospital nursing positions were unfilled and the percentage continued to drop due to a broad set of factors related to recruitment and retention-among them, fewer workers, an aging workforce, and unsatisfying work environments-that have contributed to a different kind of shortage that…

Nursing managers today find themselves amidst a plethora of complex issues. There is the issue of what makes a good nurse manager? Another issue is the governments regulatory bureaucracy with new and improved good ideas that increase problems without really fixing many issues. Retaining an experienced nurse is an issue of importance. Finally, properly staffing the unit in order to provide the right healthcare staff for the right patient population. To begin one must answer the question of what…

the nurse clinical setting improves student learning enhances confidence and communication skills in learners, aids in recruitment and retention of nursing in the clinical setting, while protecting patient safety by allowing the learner to fine tune skills in a realistic setting before they must apply them to the patient (Mullen & Byrd, 2013). In Nursing as in many professions, limited resources and funds have made educators…

Over many years, the nursing team has faced countless complications, physically and mentally, in the work setting. The basis of these complications arises from a low nurse-to-patient ratio. The typical ratio of one nurse to a multitude of patients has been proven to be detrimental to the nurse and patient. It can be harmful to the nurse by inflicting stress on himself or herself and to the patient by being subject to poor care that is given by the nurse. With a miniscule amount of nurses…

Running head: CHANGE 2 Change in the North Bay Hospital Change is a part of every profession, and is seen in the nursing field through new policies, advances in technology, and changes in the delivery of healthcare. There is planned and unplanned change and both have positive and negative impacts on the healthcare field as a whole. It can effect the people on a personal level and at an…

There is currently a nurse shortage that is increasing in intensity every year and as stated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration, by the year 2025 Arizona is estimated to have the greatest shortage of nurses. This shortage could be the result of a high turnover among nurses as a result of burnout. The nursing shortage forces nurses to increase their workload, meaning their patient to nurse ratio. With an increase in workload more…

cited in Antwi and Rowblis, 2016), the economics of employment in nursing homes lend the industry to experience high turnover, over 50 percent annually. (Mas and Munasinghe, 2006, as cited in Antwi and Rowblis, 2016) explained that one argument for these results is that a lack of room for promotion or higher wages from outside options may encourage workers with desirable traits to seek outside employment. Nurse turnover in nursing homes are associated with low quality care;…

Their Only Choice: Daily Struggles of Living in a Nursing Home You hear it all time older adults telling their children, “don’t you ever put me in a nursing home” because over the years, nursing homes have acquired bad reputations for the action of those employed there. Nursing homes should not be as dreadful as people make it seem. These should be places where the elderly are able to go and live out their final life moments in peace and serenity. Instead there are incidents all over the nation…

Nursing has been a rewarding and satisfying career for many years. However, the workload can put stress on someone. The topic I choose to write about is stress management and reduction for nurses. I choose this topic because nursing can be a stressful career and with the right management techniques can help overcome these stress mechanisms. Someday I will be a nurse and it will be beneficial for me to learn some of these techniques. I will also do a group presentation for my class about this and…

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…