Nursing Shortage Research Paper
Running head: NURSING SHORTAGE
Nursing Shortage Epidemic
Stefani Dayvault
ITT TECHNICAL Institute, Saint Petersburg Campus
Abstract
This research paper explores shortages of Registered Nurses (RN) who successfully complete an associate degree or higher in relation to the demand required to fill the workforce market. This research paper will explore past, present, and future contributors to the epidemic of nursing shortage that affect the present health care system. These factors include the aging nursing workforce, increase in elderly population which will result in more medical care, insufficient resources to supple the demand to educate future nurses, and potential increase for current nursing workforce turnover inflicted from the current shortage. This paper will illustrate the adverse effects of patient care resulting from the shortage and possible solutions to increase nurse staffing numbers. Understanding the reasons that contribute to the nursing shortage and ways to identify improvements may lead to end of the nursing shortage in the future.
Nursing Shortage Epidemic
The “Nursing Shortage” has been a topic for years now and to this day remains a relevant unsolved crisis not just affecting the United States healthcare systems but healthcare worldwide. Nurses …show more content…
health care system has had to cope with these issues where the national supply could not meet the demand. (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012) Nurses were predominantly staffed by women ages 18 to 40 but between the 1980 to 1990s nursing as a profession became less attractive as other career pathways opened up and women other opportunities in other professions that were once male dominated. Between 1990’s and the early 2000sthe acute cyclic shortage of nurses was a direct result from the struggle to implement managed care as means of controlling the high cost of health care. (Cherry & Jacob,
Nursing Shortage Epidemic
Stefani Dayvault
ITT TECHNICAL Institute, Saint Petersburg Campus
Abstract
This research paper explores shortages of Registered Nurses (RN) who successfully complete an associate degree or higher in relation to the demand required to fill the workforce market. This research paper will explore past, present, and future contributors to the epidemic of nursing shortage that affect the present health care system. These factors include the aging nursing workforce, increase in elderly population which will result in more medical care, insufficient resources to supple the demand to educate future nurses, and potential increase for current nursing workforce turnover inflicted from the current shortage. This paper will illustrate the adverse effects of patient care resulting from the shortage and possible solutions to increase nurse staffing numbers. Understanding the reasons that contribute to the nursing shortage and ways to identify improvements may lead to end of the nursing shortage in the future.
Nursing Shortage Epidemic
The “Nursing Shortage” has been a topic for years now and to this day remains a relevant unsolved crisis not just affecting the United States healthcare systems but healthcare worldwide. Nurses …show more content…
health care system has had to cope with these issues where the national supply could not meet the demand. (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 2012) Nurses were predominantly staffed by women ages 18 to 40 but between the 1980 to 1990s nursing as a profession became less attractive as other career pathways opened up and women other opportunities in other professions that were once male dominated. Between 1990’s and the early 2000sthe acute cyclic shortage of nurses was a direct result from the struggle to implement managed care as means of controlling the high cost of health care. (Cherry & Jacob,