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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Nursing Shortages are Critical in the Healthcare Field Sharoder Bonhomme American Public University System Abstract The nursing shortage is nothing new to the United States of America. In this issue analysis essay‚ the causes that are compounding the nursing shortage are examined as well as the actions taken to prevent the shortage from becoming worse. Past nursing shortage causes and the current causes are studied. Most importantly‚ patient safety is at risk resulting in medical errors
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Over the recent years‚ entering a hospital has become a health gamble. Hospital budget cuts lead to less staff. Fewer and fewer nurses are trying to tend to more and more patients. This creates a dangerous environment for the patients and poor work conditions for the nurses. It’s a vicious cycle because nobody wants to enter a profession where you are overworked. Too many hours of forced overtime quickly lowers moral and causes burnouts. So‚ people quit. In an effort to promptly replace them‚ new
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Arizona Gas Pipeline On July 30‚ 2003 an Arizona gas pipeline owned and operated by the Houston‚ Texas based company‚ Kinder Morgan Energy Partners‚ burst in Tucson and was shut down. A small portion of the 11-mile pipeline‚ which is about five feet underground burst and at least 10‚000 gallons of gasoline spilled; the pipeline rupture spewed gasoline 50 feet into the air. The Arizona gas pipeline cuts through Tucson’s South and West sides en route from El Paso‚ Texas to Phoenix‚ Arizona and
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Trends: Managing with a Shortage. In this paper Team‚ D will tell you why we chose this case study and will provide a short and detailed summary on what Managing with a Shortage means to Team D. Case 5.4 Emerging Trends: Managing with a shortage was chosen because we felt like it was something that we could all relate to. This decision is based on the idea that all the members of team D have worked for or know someone who works for a company that has or has had workplace shortages or high turnover positions
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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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(American Association of Colleges of Nursing‚2014). The nursing shortage will have a significant impact on the care that is being provided to the patients. Nursing leaders have the authority to hire or recruit new nurses to meet the needs of the facility. In this paper the author will discuss why nursing shortage is occurring‚ why nurses are displeased with the profession‚ and how nursing managers and leader will deal with nursing shortage and help to recruit nursing
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numerous reasons for the nursing shortage nationwide. Perhaps one of the most influential reasons is related to the scarcity of resources that include nursing faculty. A decreased nursing force can be directly correlated with the declining number of nursing faculty available. Multiple factors including lack of interest in becoming nursing faculty‚ lack of funding‚ noncompetitive salaries‚ aging faculty‚ and global migration of nurses affect the nursing faculty shortage. If left unsolved‚ the issue of
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The Shortage of Teachers in America All of the schools in this country are facing a serious problem. Every day more and more teachers are leaving the profession. Why are these teachers leaving? Well the primary reasons are the poor working conditions and low salaries. "Twenty percent of teachers say that unsatisfactory working conditions keep them from wanting to stay in the profession. In addition‚ thirty-seven percent who do not plan to teach until retirement blame low pay for their decision
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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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