Topics About 'Nursing Shortage'.

Incredible Health recently conducted a study with input from 100 U.S. health system executives to better understand the challenges nurses face within the profession. The findings released on June 13, 2023, shed light on the disconnect between what i...

A 5-year-old boy named Cayden has been thriving in a local preschool program, but the absence of his usual nurse has posed challenges to his continued attendance. Cayden, who suffers from infantile-onset Pompe disease, relies on a nurse for assi...

Canada's Healthcare System Crumbling It's no surprise that the pandemic caused huge burnout and stress to nurses worldwide. However, nurses were burned out before this. Specifically in Canada, it was estimated in 2018 that by 2030, there would be...

Hi, My name is Maddie and I am a CNA and entering my first year of nursing school in the fall. I would like to ask some questions to get a more well rounded view of what a career in nursing looks like. In recent years, there has been an extreme sh...

One large healthcare system, Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has decided to do just that-bring LPNs back to address the staffing crisis. Note: LVNs (licensed vocational nurses) and LPNs (licensed practical nurses) are the s...

While the COVID-19 pandemic showed the public and healthcare administrators how essential nurses are, the United States is now presented with a growing shortage of nurses. According to Nurse Journal, it is anticipated that 1.1 million nurses will be ...

Every nurse has personal reasons for leaving direct patient care or the nursing profession. However, a single problem for the nursing shortage cannot be identified, addressed, and resolved. The growing nursing shortage will result in a public health ...

You probably recall watching the frightening and surreal news stories unfold in the Spring of 2020. Hospitals were overflowing with patients infected with COVID, medical facilities were clamoring to obtain supplies that were formally considered basic...

Self-care has become a band-aid to fix a gaping stab wound. And by gaping stab wound, I mean the work environments we are forced to endure every shift as nurses. The system is broken. We are not broken So why is self-care thrown out as the a...

To address the current nursing shortage, we must first address the reason that so many nurses are leaving the profession. Is it stress from witnessing death on a daily basis as was the case during the height of the pandemic, or burnout from working t...

Burnout is a work-related stress syndrome resulting from chronic exposure to job stress, and healthcare is a leader in work-related stresses. In Long Term Care (LTC), long before the pandemic, nurses were burned out; the pandemic just magnified the a...

My horoscope tells me that nurses are fortunate to do what they hoped and planned for, even if the circumstances need fixing and more RNs are needed on the job. It is good to be satisfied working full-time in a safe area and receive fair or better co...

The "nursing shortage" gained notoriety during the pandemic's exacerbation of this incessant age-old struggle. Hospital administrations and city officials tend to advocate for an expansion of nursing school capacities and an increase in prospective s...

Nurses know better than anyone that we function in a flawed system. Though we exist within and are affected by systemic issues, many factors in our environment are beyond our control. Sometimes we may feel as powerless as specks in the sea tossed abo...

These are some of my ideas, thoughts, and opinions about some things that can be done to address the nursing shortage in the United States of America and the US Territories. Due to the phrase nursing shortage having different meanings to different pe...

Have you heard; there’s a nursing shortage? I would beg to differ and say there are plenty of nurses, many who would like to remain in practice even if it meant long hours at the bedside, if they were given the respect they earned with their degree. ...

The nursing shortage is starting to hurt, really bad. These past few years have worn down some of the strongest and most talented nurses in the US, and they have either quit nursing or moved to greener Nursing pastures. Sadly, this happened smack i...

Short staffing in nursing homes due to cost-cutting decisions, nurses retiring due to age, or the added stresses of COVID-19, along with increases in patient caseload and complexity have played a pivotal part in the short-staffing crisis. The results...

The nursing profession has to learn to work smarter and create innovative technology to decrease time-consuming, burdensome tasks. The increasingly hectic pace of stress and workload decreases professional nurse satisfaction. Also, the entry into nur...

Nursing shortages are almost as old as nursing itself. If we look back to the beginning of modern nursing over one hundred and fifty years ago, we find varying technological and economical reasons that the demand for nurses has often been higher than...

I’m questioning if there is really a nursing shortage? More specifically, I question if there is anything being done to solve the nursing shortage? I’m pretty sure it is real, my triage wait times have increased, sometimes it’s over an hour wait. So ...

What do you think? This author thinks hospitals need to rethink their approach to solving the nursing shortage. Ideally, hospitals would increase their nurse staffing levels. But nurses are a finite resource. Amid Omicron, nurses don't just...

How We Can Use the Nursing Process to Help Ourselves Survive (and Thrive?) in these Tumultuous Times As a working nurse, I know I don’t need to go into the details of what’s happening for nurses right now. For nearly every nurse the past few yea...

COVID-19 has been an active virus in the United States for twenty-one months. When the first documented case appeared in January 2020, the average American would have never imagined the sequella now raging through the country. No training or experi...

Nursing shortage has reached critical levels. That alarming iconic statement is a sign of the times, and it is broadcast daily in the media. Of course, the crisis is blamed on the Coronavirus. Assuredly, everyone in healthcare at this moment in histo...