Nursing Shortage
The Shortage of Nurses:
Nursing and a Nurse is one of the most important components of the health care hierarchy in that they see to the moment to moment care needs of patients after the doctor has performed his diagnosis and or services. Their responsibilities broach a wide spectrum of services with one of the most important being the administration of acute care. This type of care is one rung below critical care, however it is just as important in the recovery of a patient.
The shortage of nurses has reached a crisis point for health care services. The Canadian health care system is currently facing a challenge in delivering timely health care to Canadians.
A number of issues including the effects of economic rationalism, generational differences, working conditions and nurse education are revisited in a discussion that aims to refuel the debate on workplace reform for nurses.
The Canadian health care system is currently facing a challenge in delivering timely health care to Canadians. Health care, long a topic of media attention, has received even more focus within the past few years.
With the Canadian health care system facing significant issues regarding access to care, waiting time (emergency visit or any kind of surgery). Increased demands for access coupled with systemic financial constraints, and a growing shortage of health care professionals, such as physicians and nurses, new roles will need to be examined and implemented to alleviate the strain currently faced by the system.
The health care system has been facing health care professional shortage, which has been exacerbated by growing demands on the system from an aging population (CIHI,
2009a, p. 40). According to the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), if the current trend in nursing is not changed, Canada will experience a shortage in nursing of around 31 percent by 2016 (Villeneuve & MacDonald, 2006, p. 78). While this shortage has been building for many years, it has recently
Nursing and a Nurse is one of the most important components of the health care hierarchy in that they see to the moment to moment care needs of patients after the doctor has performed his diagnosis and or services. Their responsibilities broach a wide spectrum of services with one of the most important being the administration of acute care. This type of care is one rung below critical care, however it is just as important in the recovery of a patient.
The shortage of nurses has reached a crisis point for health care services. The Canadian health care system is currently facing a challenge in delivering timely health care to Canadians.
A number of issues including the effects of economic rationalism, generational differences, working conditions and nurse education are revisited in a discussion that aims to refuel the debate on workplace reform for nurses.
The Canadian health care system is currently facing a challenge in delivering timely health care to Canadians. Health care, long a topic of media attention, has received even more focus within the past few years.
With the Canadian health care system facing significant issues regarding access to care, waiting time (emergency visit or any kind of surgery). Increased demands for access coupled with systemic financial constraints, and a growing shortage of health care professionals, such as physicians and nurses, new roles will need to be examined and implemented to alleviate the strain currently faced by the system.
The health care system has been facing health care professional shortage, which has been exacerbated by growing demands on the system from an aging population (CIHI,
2009a, p. 40). According to the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), if the current trend in nursing is not changed, Canada will experience a shortage in nursing of around 31 percent by 2016 (Villeneuve & MacDonald, 2006, p. 78). While this shortage has been building for many years, it has recently
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