Nursing shortage

When transformational leadership in nursing is used it integrates employees in the organization’s vision, thus leading to a sense of empowerment and motivation. Employees feel like they are contributing to the success of their organization. If employees feel like contributors, this leads to…

Introduction A career in nursing can be very rewarding and gratifying. However, this satisfaction does not come without a price. Nurses suffer from physical, mental and emotional exhaustion due to the demands of their job. Rising employee turnover rates are resulting in understaffing, which lead to nurses taking on a higher patient load each shift exposing them further to the burdens of handling traumatic situations on a daily basis. These strains can develop into compassion fatigue. Where…

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 grandfather had a stroke. Soon after graduating high school, I became a medical assistant, which gave me more experience in the actual…

Introduction The nation is suffering from a shortage of school nurses. (Camera, 2016) This shortage has hit the Philadelphia area forcefully due to severe budget cuts and a large population of chronically ill students. Within the Philadelphia Public School System, the current laws regulating nurse ratios place the nurse to student ratio at 1 nurse for every 1,500 students. In many cases, this means that a nurse must travel between schools in order to provide care, even to the detriment of…

Nursing Case Study Being a nurse is an incredibly difficult yet rewarding job. Nurses need to be cognizant of their own personal morals and values before taking care of patients. As nurses, it is also important to be fully aware of the nursing process. This is an especially important step when determining a health care issue that you would like to change. Delegation of nursing tasks is something we do everyday. For those in managerial positions, such as charge nurse, this is extremely…

time. Nurses want to have more time. Trying to save time does not work when you have to take care of a lot of patients, which means you must write a lot of reports. It does not matter if you have a super computer that can save time for you. If the nursing workload still increasing there is nothing we can…

are predicted to have a shortage in nursing (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). Administrations and managements systems are diligently studying the possible strategies to promote productivity, decrease call outs and improve retention in the positions (Lartey, Cummings & McGrath, 2014). The prediction of a shortage of nurses by the year 2018 will be augmented with nurse retiring, changes in healthcare delivery and other financial changes (Grossman & Valiga, 2013) The nursing turnover leads to an…

The argument I will be addressing in my persuasive essay will be about the unfair workload of nurses. I will be arguing that nurses are overworked and do not have the support of the administrators. My main argument is to have the administrators hiring more nurse staff or to lower the ratio of nurse to patient. This argument is derived from my field of work. I am an RN, and I work in the same circumstances. Three key points for my selected topic are: ratio of nurse to patient, nurse’s burnout,…

comnsidred to comprise skils, knowledge, traits and motives shortage is alwys problem. Legal intervention is the correct answer. Management and leadership approaches to the issue can help to better nursing surrounding and prevent many negative effect of inappropriative nurse-to-patient ratio.the mangers are good responsible for poorly performed tasks so nurses perform their jobs well and correctly.also nuring staff ration impact on nursing shortage on mangers to more increased chacnce of…

focus of Quality Improvement. (QI). To correct the gaps in quality improvement overuse, underuse, and misuse of health services, six aims was identified namely safety, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable (IOM, 2012). The nursing profession interest has always been on ethical and justice related to quality of patient care, the distress on insufficient staffing and work situation makes it impossible to claim non-maleficence (Aiken et al., 2012; Martin, 2015). The…