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Nursing Shortage: An Unaddressed Curse

   

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NURSING SHORTAGE[Publish Date]NURSING SHORTAGEESSAY
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NURSING SHORTAGE[Publish Date]Issue of Nurse ShortageThe nursing profession requires consistent and persistent motivation along with the commitment in order to stay in the profession as a nurse [ CITATION Raf07 \l 1033 ]. With the increase in demand for the health services, and also with the aging population, more nurses are required to resolve the conditions on a daily basis. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act made easy access for the patients so the demand is on the rise, but with the shortages in nurses, the effect of it on the health care industry acts like a curse. The factors which are contributing towards the nursing shortage cannot be described in a single word but are multifarious. The most basic factoris the shortage in faculty which ultimately resulted in turning away the potential students. But, again it is noted that the training and the education which are provided to a health worker takes too long a time but is not only the time taken in training or invested in training, but also the demographic changes which is barring the increase in the workforce of the nurses[ CITATION Buc06 \l 1033 ]. But, the most dominating problem in United States is the inability of the nursingschool to support the increase in enrolment, since they phenomenally lack the nursing school faculty. American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) recently found that, a vast majority of qualified applicants from baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs were turned away, and the reason so provided was that, there is lack of sufficient faculties or clinical sites or there is not enough space in classrooms, there is lack of clinical preceptors and finally there is constraints with regards to costs[ CITATION Kan07 \l 1033 ]. Again, the low salaried educatorsdo not want to impart the training and education needed for a nurse, and also the nurses who are matured and grown- ups are entering the career development in late point and not at the early stages, so this increases the inability to fill the roles for the faculties, again when the individuals are starting the career development at a later stage, then the chances of the retirement increases[ CITATION USC14 \l 1033 ]. Due to the raised acuity in hospitals there is a declining length of stay since the new technology does the rapid assessment, with the benefitted treatment, along with the subsequent discharge. The aging workforce is at the verge of retirement[ CITATION 1mi \l 1033 ]. So, based on this the health care facilities are responding to the cost pressure and are reducing the staff, but have incorporated a mandatory overtime policy, which if amalgamatedcan be a plausible explanation for deciding factor to be on the negative side, to come in to the profession. Nursing leaders and managers approaching the issue of Nurse ShortageA range of solutions can be approached by the Nursing leaders and managers for solving the nursing shortage problem which includes the subsidized funding, along with the increase in wage, to hiring minority and immigrant nurses, also with the campaigns for improving the imageof the profession [ CITATION Fun17 \l 1033 ]. It is recognized the need to increase funding for nursing education, directed toward nursing faculty as well as students. Nursing schools are in to the formation of the strategic partnerships to seek private support in order to expand student capacity, as the example is provided by the University of Minnesota who recently in 2013 announced partnership with the Minnesota VA Health Care System to substantiate expansion in
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