Assessment of Australian Nursing Workforce: Challenges and Future Status

Running head: HEALTH WORKFORCE PLANNING
Health Workforce Planning
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Executive Summary
The following report provides a detailed assessment of Australian Nursing Workforce. The
report includes a scenario where it is found that healthcare sector in the recent time observed an
increasing demand of healthcare service but to provide desired services, the sector is facing the
challenge of retaining and hiring nurses. The major problem is, a large number of workforces are
heading towards the requirement and the enrollment of new nurses is yet less. The report
provides updated tables of nursing workforce of 2014, 2015 and 2017. Likewise, the report
provides a review of supply of workforce, characteristics of nursing workforce and future status.

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Table of Content
1.0 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
1. 1 Definition of the issue...........................................................................................................4
1.2 Rationale................................................................................................................................4
1.3 Summary of the assignment questions..................................................................................4
1.4 Section of the report summarized..........................................................................................5
2.0 Nature and extent of the issues..................................................................................................5
3. Response to the questions............................................................................................................5
4.0 Conclusion...............................................................................................................................10
References......................................................................................................................................11

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1.0 Introduction
1. 1 Definition of the issue
Australian Health Workforce Sustainability report indicates that the industry faces some
significant challenges related to retention and productivity of nurses in the sector. Due to aging
population, changing health trends, and customer expectation, the demands of healthcare services
are rapidly increasing. However, in order to meet those increasing demands, the healthcare
organizations require nurses that are more skilled or the workforce but aging nursing workforce
and poor retention rate remains as the major challenges to the healthcare organizations in
Australia. This means that even if the organizations wish to train their nurses to meet the
growing demands but preparing the aging workforce may be a waste of investment because the
aging nursing workforce has the high rate of retirements
1.2 Rationale
It is uncertain whether the healthcare organizations are able to provide the desired healthcare
service to the patients. The report is conducted to enhance the current nursing workforce of
healthcare organization of Australia to meet the growing healthcare service demands.
1.3 Summary of the assignment questions
A set of questions designed for the assessment is about how the nursing workforce development.
This questions demand an updated workforce profile on the nursing workforce of Australia by
updating few relevant tables. In addition, the questions also talk about whether the findings from
the recent materials such as whether the supply of workforce has improved or the characteristic
of the nurse have changed. The questions demand an environmental analysis on nursing
workforce of Australia to determine the present and future status of overall nursing workforce.