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In five pages this paper discusses how the shortage of nurses compromises the safety of both patients and nurses alike. Six sourc...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

divert status at least three times a week for the last year, with the exception of the only level one trauma center in Nevada, whi...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

between those who supported mandatory staffing ratios, based on research such as the study conducted by Linda Aiken, and the stanc...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

a drivable distance. This rural population currently exceeds 35 million in the country (America Telemedicine Association, 2007). ...

This essay is about proposed policies and legislation that addressed the nursing shortage. It also brings in proposed changed to M...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

change the position before completing three years of clinical practice (MacKusick and Minick, 2010). This research article is very...

the women who have traditionally filled nursing positions will undoubtedly continue to pursue other professional opportunities tha...

employability: The role of nurse educator requires an advanced practice nursing degree at the graduate levels of masters and docto...

available in the need for workers. There is also the consideration of the destruction it is taking place in the country and the ne...

are several factors to consider when presenting a safety meeting in order to make sure that it is truly helpful and meaningful dur...

that hospital nurse staffing levels are inadequate to provide safe and effective care" (DPE Research Department, 2003). Physicians...

This essay provides data regarding the shortage and turnover and causes for these events. The essay also discusses why there is a ...

This research paper presents a comprehensive discussion of the American nursing shortage. A brief history of the shortage is prese...

positive effect on the nursing staffing shortage being experienced at Hospital Name. Assessment of the environment Internal envir...

2010 and it indicated that the nursing shortage was being addressed by Maryland schools, this made me curious and this led me to t...