Scarce Resources: The Nursing Shortage September 24‚ 2012 Scarce Resources: The Nursing Shortage It is a widely known fact that the United States is facing a critical shortage of Registered Nurses (RN’s)‚ and that over the next several years the need for nurses is going to increase significantly due to the ageing baby boomer generation. It is expected that by 2020 the United States will face a shortage of over one million nurses (Buerhaus‚ Auerback‚ & Staiger‚ 2009) and this fact has drawn
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Effective leadership is a leader with exceptional oratorical skills who can persuade people to follow him or her to reaching their goal by asserting encouragement or fear. Throughout history we have had a number of leaders‚ effective and ineffective. Of the effective leaders all had a goal he or she were striving to obtain. They also shared similar characteristics such as oratorical skills‚ and most importantly the effective leaders were aware that people are moved by pathos‚ emotional appeal. So
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The Nursing Shortage: The Need for Nurse Educators “The American Nurses Association (ANA) states nursing is the protection‚ promotion‚ and optimization of health and abilities‚ prevention of illness and injury‚ alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response‚ and advocacy in the care of individuals‚ families‚ communities‚ and populations‚” (ANA‚ 2012). However‚ what happens when there are not enough nurses to care for humanity? For many years now there has been
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Nurse Leadership/Management Role in Financial Management and Budgeting Kimberly Lizama Holy Names University NURS 151 10 FS December 6‚ 2010 Abstract The following paper discusses the nurse manager’s/leader’s role in healthcare financial management and budgeting. The definition of a budget is a detailed financial plan. The nurse manager/leader is responsible in knowing and understanding the different types and budgets within the healthcare organization: operating‚ capital expenditure‚ and
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The U.S. nursing shortage had been a serious issue for quite sometime now and continues to escalate. As the nursing workforce continues to age‚ nurses leave the profession faster than they can be replaced and the crisis continues to grow. Nurses are leaving for different reasons. What is being done to solve the nursing shortage here in the United States? Nursing recruitment and retention is one of many solutions that can alleviate this problem. "Nurses are privileged to belong to a profession
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Management “Management is a set of activities directed at an organisation’s resources‚ with the aim of achieving organisational goals efficiently and effectively.”(Davidson‚ Simon‚ Gottschalk‚ Hunt‚ Wood & Griffin (2006) p.5). Management has been practiced for thousands of years by many different civilisations. As a result there are many different approaches to management‚ two of which are‚ the behavioural and contemporary management perspectives. The behavioural perspective recognises the
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Nursing shortage and turnover is a continuous struggle throughout health care facilities. This in turn affects the quality of patient care and the workload of other nurses‚ causing an increase in nursing burnout. Nursing shortage occurs when there is a smaller amount of nurses who are employed at the time when the demand for them is drastically higher‚ where turnover is defined as the loss of an employee due to any number of reasons (Huber‚ 2010). Numerous studies have been done and it has been found
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Nursing Leadership Laura Edwards Submitted to Jeanne Morrison PhD‚ MSN in partial fulfillment of NR622 Advanced Leadership Concepts Regis University October 15‚ 2011 Nursing Leadership Nursing leaders are crucial to any nursing organization. They motivate‚ empower‚ influence‚ and communicate the organization’s vision to create change within the organization. Great nursing leadership depends on great nursing leaders. This paper will define nursing leadership and describe leadership characteristics
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improvements to be made. The first area of improvement that has got to be mentioned it the nursing shortage. In many health care systems there is a nursing shortage. Nurses often become overworked and underappreciated. When someone in any profession is overworked‚ accidents can happen‚ but within the nursing profession these overworked accidents can have detrimental consequences. With many shifts short-staffed‚ nursing managers face the dilemma of either overworking staff or having not enough nurses during
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Values Clarification Kristin Goodwin Southern New Hampshire University Nursing 310: Nursing Leadership & Management CoralAnn Hackett‚ RNC‚ MSN Values Clarification Values are the cornerstone of every healthcare organization. When expressed and put into action‚ values become the living energy of the organization (Human Science). An organization’s mission and vision statements clearly define the culture of the organization and its means to complete the defined mission. When each member of
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