Nursing school essay question....

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Working on essay for nursing school.

One of the questions to be answered is...What is one challenge in the Nursing profession and how would you address it as a nurse?

Not looking for answers, but a few suggestions to get my brain moving in the right direction would be great!! :typing

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Sound like you're looking for an answer to me!:lol2:

Perhaps consider areas of substandard care, disease epidemics that need advocacy, or frightening health trends that need intervention.

Good luck with your essay and share your topic when you choose it!

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Specializes in Hospital Education Coordinator.

Maturing of professional nurses. What can be done to keep them working? Get back those who retire or those who let license lapse or are immigrants?

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

With so many other career options for women (and men) in today's society -- fewer women may be willing to work the more unattractive shifts that direct patient care roles often require. By that I mean... weekends, night shift, holidays, etc.

Back in the days when nursing was one of the very few careers that offered the possibility for advancement for women, women who wanted the benefits of advancement had few choices but to work those unpopular shifts and tolerate the low pay while they worked their way up the career ladder. Now, with so many other available, few women are willing to tolerate those negative aspects of hospital staff nurse jobs.

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Unsafe patient loads and large nurse:pt ratios.

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Unsafe patient loads and large nurse:pt ratios.

Great topic!

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Specializes in ICU, Telemetry.

How to handle acute care patients (cardiac, pulmonary, oncology) who also have a major psych diagnosis -- we had a paranoid schizo try to bite a chunk out of an aide's forearm who was in for CHF/COPD and ESRD. I mean, nobody studies the effect of taking all these meds together, ya know?

How to allot "x" dialysis hours to "x + y" number of patients, knowing the next dialysis clinic is 54 miles away.

Dealing with "difficult" families.

"Compartmentalized nursing" -- should we start specializing while still in school/clinicals, just like the MDs do?

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The advancing age of the average nurse and how this will effect the nursing shortage as they begin to retire.

Nurses eating their young. ;)

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