Essays on Nursing Shortage

In the past 3 decades, there has been a significant increase in nurse shortage with the numbers expected to fall even more by the end of 2020. Most researchers, healthcare managers, and nurse leaders assume that the issue has been resolved but the truth is it is far more disastrous. Nursing shortage has many negative implications within the healthcare system. Registered nurses have a high demand in the market place, wherein the current RN workforce of over 2.7 ˘million is expect to grow above 3.5 million by 2022 (AACN 2014). Due to the increasing number of elderly patients, acute ...

The nursing practice constantly experiences challenges related to different aspects of care. Resolving these challenges effectively is determined by the leadership and the management in nursing. Nursing leadership and nursing management are terms that are persistently confused and interchanged, despite the different meanings of the terms. Understanding the meaning and contribution of leadership and management to nursing is critical in resolving common issues affecting the nursing profession. The purpose of this paper is to investigate a nursing issue and compare and contrast how nurse leaders and nurse managers would approach this problem. This exercise will facilitate identification of the ...

As the nursing executive of a general hospital with more than 1,000 beds, I need to address the nursing shortage in the emergency department. Currently, there are 19 full-time nurses working in the emergency department. That number proved to be sufficient to effectively address approximately 80% of all admissions, but it will be necessary to increase the number of full-time nurses and staff retention rates need to increase in order to further improve care delivery in the department and reduce job burnout rates. According to Buchan and Aiken (2008), the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) identified ...

Summary of Ethical Dilemma: Low Nurse-Patient Ratio

There is an existing nursing shortage in America today primarily because of the increasing number of patients in the aging population, frequency of chronic diseases, an aging workforce, and the limited number of Americans taking up Nursing education to cover the growing needs for the profession. The nursing field belongs to the group of fastest-growing careers not only in America, but in other countries as well. However, the demand surpasses the supply of nurses, which results in high nurse to patient ratio. As a consequence, quality care that patients supposedly should receive from the medical industry suffers. Studies reveal ...

The nursing shortage is a persistent and ongoing concern for the United States, especially in the context of the severe nursing shortage by 2020 due to the aging population. Although nursing is among the highest professions in the context of employment growth, the rapidly increasing health care demand will put a considerable amount of strain on nurses (American Nurses Association, 2016). The projected nursing shortage will have several effects on the nursing profession and the public regarding health care services and quality (Grant, 2016). The nurse-to-patient ratio will decrease considerably because the number of patients will increase substantially in ...

Problem Statement

During my practice in the cardiac care unit of 20- bed hospital, I witnessed that most nurses were stressed due to overtime and work- pressure as the ratio of patient to nurse for patient care delivery was 4:1. Such ratios exert huge pressure on the nurse as he/ she has to be attentive to each of her patient as and when needed. Additionally, cardiac care unit’s demands nurses to be highly attentive as most patients admitted need frequent help due to their critical condition. Such situations in which nurses have to handle so many patients’ single- handed increases ...

Abstract

Over the years, the number of nurses in the hospitals and other medical institutions is one which tends not to meet the desired levels of nurse to patient levels. Various researches have been carried out to show the various causes of this occurrence and some have even been able to show how the issue can be effectively tackled which leads to the increase in the number of medical personnel in the hospitals. These methods intended to increase in the number of personnel in the hospitals are one which is a problem of each and every individual within the society. ...

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Impact of Projected Nursing Shortage

The Registered Nurses are considered the largest single unit of healthcare professionals within most of the labor industry across the globe for instance the U.S. currently the nursing profession is already experiencing a shortage of the Registered Nurses, the shortage is projected to continue being experienced as a result of the drop in the number of people entering the profession ("Nursing Shortage", 2016). The cyclic shortage is expected to affect the nursing profession by 2020 in various ways. First the shortage affects the quality of care offered by nurses, resulting from a few nursing ...

The current shortage in the number of registered nurses in the US is expected to increase to more than 500 000 registered nurses by the year 2025 (MacKusick & Minick, 2010). The current nurse turnover rate in the United States, on the other hand, is 16.5%. This rate is also projected to rise over the next decade (Mazurenko, Gupte, & Shan, 2012). High rate of nurse turnover is one of the factors contributing to the nursing shortage in the US. It is estimated that 30%-50% of all new registered nurses change their positions or choose to leave the profession completely ...

The Registered Nurse Staffing Act

Introduction In the contemporary society, medical expenses form a big part of the house and family budget. Changes in lifestyles and cultures have resulted in an upsurge of various medical conditions. Increasing population also continues to threaten the capacity of nations and states to offer quality and safe care for their patients. In order for the department of health to ensure that patients get access to quality and safe care, priority has to be placed on the education levels and staffing techniques of the hospital. The nurses are the primary caregivers of any hospital, and thus, their competence and ...

The nursing profession is grappling with many issues with hinder its efficiency. Thus, the issue that I will be investigating in this paper is the nursing staffing issue. To successfully accomplish this goal, I was able to use to use the chamberlain library to locate my database, which was very simple to use. The title of the source is National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators (NDNQI®) and its location is http://www.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Volume62001/No1Jan01/ShortageProblemAnswers.html. The source was published by American Nurses Association (ANA). The national database of nursing quality indicator NDNQI is the one and the only database collecting data in all ...