Essay On Nursing Shortage

Why the shortage of nursing? Most of the people working in the health field likely heard about “nursing shortage” for the last decades and it has been a topic of discussion particularly for those who works as Pharmacist, ARNPs and Nurses. The nursing profession is not the exception and has been experiencing an intolerable shortage of clinical nurses, at the same time the organizations are struggling recruiting and retaining current staff. Last April the American Association of Colleges of Nursing released information saying that our country is expected to “intensify as baby boomers age and the need for healthcare grows”. December 2013, the Bureau of Labor statistics pointed that nursing was listed amongst the top healthcare occupation which is expected to growth in the coming 10 years, over the past ten years, the average age of RN that had been employed increased by nearly two years from 42.7 years in 2000 to 44.6 years in 2010. The nursing workforce grew during the last ten years by more than 500,000. The Bureau also projects the need for 525,000 replacements nurses in the workforce bringing the total number of job openings for nurses due to growth and replacements to 1.05 million by 2022 and by 2025, some estimates

The most recent literature shows that nursing shortage is not only in the United States but is a widespread around the world, for example Canadian nurses are facing the same issues (overworked, stressed, and generally ill). In our country, the biggest group of nurses are going to retire by the year 2020, creating a negative impact on the organizations resources. Blakeley and Ribeiro think that the main trigger for nurses to retire early are unquestionably the impulse of reduce workload, creates independence and flexibility of