Topics About 'Nursing Shortage'.

History of the shortage In March 2000, the National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses conducted by the Division of Nursing of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Bureau of Health Professionals revealed several interesting facts abou...

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...

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...

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 ...

US Hospitals Hit With Nurse Staffing Crisis Amid COVID A few choice quotes: Mmm, demoralized and...greedy! My eyeballs actually don't roll back far enough for this ^ one. ? Or this ^ one. ?? No doubt the situ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

Many clinicals for nursing programs have been cancelled due to COVID-19 yet nurses are needed more than ever. Delaying future nurses is not a solution to this problem and much learning is done on the job after graduating. It may help future nurses to...

As the nursing faculty continues to grow older and many instructors retire, it is difficult for schools to produce more nurses creating a staffing crisis. The impact of COVID-19 has only made things more challenging. Hospitals have ongoing nursing sh...

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...

I had no idea, when I took a job as a nurse manager of an inpatient unit at a rural hospital that's 4 hours away from the nearest large city, that a huge portion of my job stress would come from the fact that we DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH NURSES!! Every unit...

Written by Morgan Curry, BSN, RN for Nursing CE Central Now more than ever, I hear this question asked just about every day. When I entered the nursing profession, people were excited to work and care for patients. Yes, you had some nurses who ...

Nursing shortages have long troubled the nursing and healthcare industry. The aging US population means more people with comorbidities and requires more acute and chronic care management than ever before. Due to the ever-aging population, nursing pro...

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...

In our 2017 salary survey we asked nurses when they anticipate leaving the nursing workforce and factors influencing their decisions. Using data from more than 18,000 participants, projections for the future of the healthcare industry, and statistics...

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...