Literature Review
Western Governors University
Literature Review
The professional setting is a public healthcare facility that has licensed for 1,395 beds and budgeted to staff 745 bed. This facility provides emergency, inpatient, and outpatient services with 714 full-time physicians and 900 registered nurses (RNs). The hospital is also a teaching hospital that trains many medical professionals daily. The hospital has several units like children center, maternity ward, medical surgical floor, trauma/emergency department, Intensive care unit, psychiatric units, and orthopedic unit. The hospital also offers educational classes in different areas. The hospital is considered to be one of the largest acute …show more content…
It is an article that specifically sourced from Medical surgical Nursing. It is comprehensive and current | Nurse Migration: What Is its Impact? - This article focuses on the impact of nurse migration. Severity of shortage of nurses worldwide, as it pushed some of the developed countries, including United States to recruit nurses from overseas. It also discussed how international migration of nurses affects developing countries like Philippines and Jamaica. | Journal of the American Medical Association | This article was published in 2000, still an up-to-date article. It is a peer reviewed article. | Implications of an Aging Registered Nurse Workforce – This article presents a study which identifies and reviews the main amendment in the age distribution and entire supply of nurses up to year 2020 in United States. | Nursing Education Perspectives | Was published in 2011, hence is among the current literature for research. | Investing In Human Capital: An Academic-Service Partnership to Address the Nursing Shortage. The paper presents different perspective of solving the nurse shortage problem. They authors discuss an Academic-Service Partnership to Addressing the Nursing Shortage. Using in-depth interviews with nurses at different levels in the nursing profession, they provide insight into the struggles faced by nurses in their daily work environment. …show more content…
| Factors contributing to contemporary nursing shortage in Macao - The paper discussed and evaluates clinical question to research. The research is based on the main causes of the nurses’ shortage. The areas highlighted in the paper include inadequate workforce planning, ineffective career support, poor allocation mechanism, poor recruitment and ineffective use of the available nursing resources. This journal is very relevant in providing current trends in the attitude of nurses towards health care.