from a nursing shortage. As history has show, the nursing shortage waxes and wanes with the country’s economy. According to Buerhaus, Auerbach, & Staiger, 2009, the Registered Nurse vacancy rates across the country were up while the school enrollments were down. In the following years, the shortage not only persisted but also worsened (Ulrich et al., 2010). The enrollment according to Ulrich et al., 2010, continued to increase but not enough to counteract the continued nursing shortage. This
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Title Heading: THE NURSING SHORTAGE AND TURNOVER EPEDIMIC FACING THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR Huriyyah Davie Final Course Project Keller Graduate School HS542 INTRODUCTION There has been many discussions regarding our current healthcare policies and the many Americans that are not able to utilize the system we have due to lack of medical coverage. Another element, not as popular but has an equal if not worst effect
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of U.S. RNs worked more than 40 hours per week and about 9% worked more than 60 hours per week” (p. 205). In most instances RNs work overtime to alleviate staff shortages in their units. According to Bae (2012b), staff shortage in hospitals is not a new phenomenon and many researchers in health care system contend that such chronic shortage of nurses has a direct and negative impact on patient care (Bae, 2010; Bae, 2012b, Bae, Brewer, & Faan, 2012). For example, in several of her research articles
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Debate Focus The federal bill H.R. 724 is known as the America’s Partnership for Nursing Education Act of 2009. The focus of this bill is to amend the Public Health Service Act by authorizing grants to increase the number of qualified nursing faculty. The anticipated nursing shortage in any state of less than 555 nurses per 100,000 capita by 2020 qualifies a state for this grant. The nursing faculty shortage jeopardizes patient care and causes health care costs to rise. Recruitment and retention
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quality nursing care. However, oftentimes units in healthcare facilities across the nation lack the personnel that give the units the number of human resources needed to provide safe and sufficient care. A variety of people are affected by unsafe staffing: the actual nurses and ancillary staff, as well as stakeholders such as administrators, government and legislative bodies, and last but not least, the tax payer. The adverse effects of short staffing and the future impending nursing shortage are discussed
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crisis: The shortage of nurses in America. The question: How and why did this shortage become a persistent problem? Matthew affixes strings of yarn to a number of gunshots: the increasing average age of the workforce, long hours, work that is often menial or clerical, and finally, relatively low salaries. But these strands lead to new questions, wider causes which have nothing to do with social yarn. These new questions have to do with rhetoric and the enduring association of nursing with “women’s
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physicians over the last four decade, it has been determined that there is a shortage of physicians within the United States; facts supporting this theory will be explored. The shortage within the medical industries is not only apparent among the physicians; it is evident in the nursing field. Identification of the factors contributing to the shortage within both industries will be discussed. The physicians and nursing staff are instrumental in providing health care to the public. Public health
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Health Care Workforce Shortages The access to quality healthcare is at risk due to the healthcare workforce shortages. The shortages include all members of the hospital work staff from nurses to primary care physicians to highly trained surgeons. Many hospitals do not have enough nurses to tend to the patients. The United States is projected to have a nursing shortage that is expected to intensify as baby boomers age and the
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Research Critique, Part 1: Nursing Attrition Grand Canyon University: Nursing 433V 11/22/2015 The Problem Statement This study seeks to know the reasons why nurses are leaving clinical nursing. The current and future nursing shortage is a huge concern. This study was done because the author feels that there is very little research pertaining to nursing attrition. And this is important to know and understand. Because knowledge and change can occur when it becomes known what the factors are
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Institute of Medicine 2010 Report Guiding the Future of Nursing Susi Rubendall Grand Canyon University: NRS-430V-0506 February 22, 2015 Nurses are critical to the future health and healthcare of America. The enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) calls for a transformation of healthcare to provide a safer, more affordable, more accessible and higher quality of healthcare. Central to these goals is high quality nursing care and practice. In 2008 the Robert Wood Johnson
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