Nursing Shortage: Leaders or Managers? By Tonya D. Martin NRS 451v Grand Canyon University The nursing profession is experiencing an overwhelmingly grim shortage of clinical nurses. It is predicted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics that the demand for nurses is going to increase approximately 60% between the years 2008 and 2018. Of those who graduate from nursing school‚ 50% leave the profession within their first two years of practice (Ferrell‚ et al‚ 2011). The problem
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know that there is 126‚ 000 nursing positions unfilled in hospitals across the country ( Jackson‚ 2006) and the average nurse is 46 years of age? ( Alexandra‚ 2006). The public needs to see that the shortage of nurses is a major issue that is only going to get worse if something is not done about it. It has been shown that since the beginning of the shortage there has been an increase in mortality rates due to a increase of poor patient care. If this nursing shortage continues it will only decrease
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I currently live in Dallas Texas‚ I graduated nursing school may 2012‚ being last year‚ I did not get my first job until about October 2012‚ I applied to all the hospitals in the area‚ I was not able to secure an employment with any hospitals around. Whenever I called these hospitals to see about the status of my application‚ I was always told that I don ’t currently have the experience that they are looking for. I asked the management if there was a program for new graduates that I could enroll
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Nursing Shortage The expected population growth of the older adult in the United States over the next few decades will have a dramatic impact on its healthcare workforce. As the aging population grows‚ the need for health care services will also increase‚ more especially from nurses. At the same time‚ large numbers of health care workers will be retiring while this demand for health care is on the rise. Although the nursing profession has the largest segment of the U.S. healthcare workforce
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The term “shortage” refers to a situation where there is a demand for something but there is not enough of a supply to meet the demand. In order to determine whether there is an actual nursing shortage currently present‚ we must know what the demand for for nurses and what the current supply of nurses is. According to Buerhaus ‚ Staiger ‚ and Auerbach‚ the demand for nurses is expected to increase two to three percent per year. Furthermore‚ The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration suggested
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Introduction Over time in health care there have been times in which‚ the directors of the hospital have been trying to get rid of Licensed Practical Nurse or LPNs and want their nursing staff to only be Registered Nurses or RNs. If LPNs are eliminated there will be a huge nursing shortage in the hospital setting. If a LPNs is currently working in a hospital setting are told to get their RN by a date or they will be fired. This is a problem because older LPN that is close to retirement they are not
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turnover Nursing shortage is a phenomenon that is affecting nurses and the provision of adequate patient care in today’s health care industry. Nursing shortage is said to occur when the demand for employment of nurses is far greater than the number of nurses willing to be employed at that time (Huber‚ 2010). According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (A.A.C.N.)‚ “the nursing shortage is expected to increase as baby boomers age‚ and the need for health
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Nursing Shortage and Nursing Turn Over Nursing shortage and turnover is an enormous issue affecting nurses in the delivery of patients’ care. Nursing shortages have been shown to cause unfavorable effects which include decreased job satisfaction‚ decreased access to care‚ and can lead to increased turn over. This paper is about nursing shortages and nursing turn overs‚ and how the author would expect nursing leaders and managers to approach this issue. The writer’s rational would be supported by
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and knowing that you may not get the proper care that you need and desire because the nursing staff is short. That could be very dangerous depending on what’s going on with your health. Nurses have always been a huge part of the medical field because of the diversity of the occupation. Patients rely on the care of nurses while healing/recovering and when that care can’t be given‚ there is a big problem. The shortage of nurses in the twenty-first century will greatly impact the well being and outcome
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Causes That Attribute to the Nursing Shortage Sheina Serrano Felician University Causes That Attribute to the Nursing Shortage Nursing is a wonderful and reward filling profession to embark on. Nursing programs are becoming more intense and may require a higher degree of education to work in specialty fields. In spite of having many nursing and certification programs available‚ whether on campus or online‚ along with many graduates’ yearly‚ we still have a deficit in this profession
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