What Is The Issue Of Nursing Shortage

Problem Description Imagine not having a nurse come into look after you, after you have had surgery. No one to check your vitals, give you replacements on your IV, no one to ask you how you are feeling, and no one to come in on time to give you your medications. The nationwide nursing shortages are increasing and creating not only a problem for the health care system but also for patients and their well being. Nurses are an ideal part of the healthcare system providing serious care to clients ranging in all age groups. Nurses assist doctors in daily non surgical procedures and more to help make sure clients are doing their best when they are under care of a healthcare facility and its employees. According to James Buchan (2015), Christine
According to Logan MacLean (2014), Susan Hassmiller (2014), Franklin Shaffer (2014), Kathleen Rohrbaugh (2014), Tiffany Collier (2014), and Julie Fairman (2014) there are three overlapping issues that are causing the lack of nurses in the health care field. The first issue is a decrease in the workforce due to years of poor planning. The second issue is that since the health care system does not have proper salary reimbursements for attending new educational services, perspective nursing students and educators are turned off. The last issue is poor distribution of existing nurses through the nation causing shortages in rural and urban places to increase. Implications of these issues and the overall lack of nurses are felt thorough out the country by not providing clients the care they need. Not enough data is being collected from the patients to provide the best care, medical errors are being made, and not all nurses are able to use the new technology that is being implemented in the system because of the lack of training due to shortages in the
According to Nardi and Gyurko there are varies ways to improve shortages such as having more structured management within the health care system, changing policies within the nursing education spectrum, eliminating the barriers of advanced practices, stabilizing the funding of nursing programs, managing the migration of nurses from other countries into the Unites States, and making nursing faculty salaries competitive. These are all potential solutions that may be able to increase the amount of nurses in the health care field. In my opinion all of these solutions have truth to them, in order to reverse the nursing shortage, the system as a whole has to change to incorporate more than just one change. In order to make nursing educator salaries competitive, the government has to make sure that there is an increase on the pay scale for nursing educators. Because in order to have great nurses in the future that have the correct skill set to practice safe nursing skills you need great nursing educators to teach the