Nursing Issues and Trends Report: Week 5 Assignment, [University Name]

This report examines two key aspects of contemporary nursing: the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the global nurse shortage. It begins by discussing the MDGs, outlining their initiatives and emphasizing the crucial role of community nurses in achieving them, particularly in improving maternal and child health and combating communicable diseases. The report then addresses the growing trend of recruiting foreign nurses to address staffing vacancies in healthcare facilities, particularly in the United States. It analyzes the potential consequences of relying on foreign nurses and suggests that investing in strategies to retain local nurses may be a more sustainable solution to mitigate the shortage. The report highlights the importance of addressing the underlying issues contributing to the nursing shortage, such as working conditions and job satisfaction, to reduce the need for foreign nurse recruitment and ensure the long-term health of the nursing profession. The report uses the student's views on the topic to illustrate the issues.

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References..................................................................................................................................3

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Solution 1
The Millennium Development Goals (referred as MDGs) were the 8 initiatives those
were established as international development goals during the year 2015 by the United
Nations. In this context, these 8 MDGs are the presenters of a unique world compact. In my
opinion, best advantage of MDGs is that they have derived from the UN Millennium
Declaration, that was signed from 189 countries and hence the MDGs profit through an
international political support (United Nations Development Programme, 2015). MDG
initiatives were taken to eradicate poverty, illiteracy as well as ill-health from all over the
world. MDG initiatives within health sector helped to stop women dying during their
pregnancies as well as child birth; to save young children suffering from ill-health following
death; as well as to tackle the severe communicable diseases like HIV-AIDS (Sachs, 2012).
As we know that unless we will be able to deal with the fundamental health issues of the
world, we will not be able to succeed in any other field of global development, hence MDG
initiatives and their accomplishment has is essentially useful for our community well-being
(United Nations Development Programme, 2015).
In addition, a community nurse also plays an important role while accomplishing
MDGs within related to global health sector. In this context, while attaining the MDGs of
decreasing child mortality rates, cultivating maternal-health, as well as combating chronic
diseases like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and community nurses are playing an integral role to make
a globe of difference within the lives of people as well as rest populations (World health
organization, 2015). In this way, the MDGs vision is to have a better as well as fairer world
and that will fail unless we will put more efforts for improving the health of global public
which is only possible with the support of community nurses (WOOGARA, 2011).
Solution 2
In the recent era, U.S. health-care institutions or facilities are struggling to fill present
registered nurse staffing vacancies. In addition, more critical nurse shortage has been
predicted during the near 20 years. Hence, in response many health care institutions of United
States as well as other industrial nations are putting their resources into addressing the

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nursing issues and trends by recruiting foreign nurses. Although, such institutions are
spending many resources on recruiting foreign nurses to avert the future risk of shortage of
efficient nurses and it is getting a quick-growing private sector business yet this nursing issue
or trend can also be addressed through working into the right direction.
In this way, my opinion over this nursing trend is that the US health care entities
should try to manage resources in such a way that local or regional nurses can be retained and
make satisfied while working at their workplaces as this issue may lead to an excessive
shortage of nurses in near future. In whole, writer’s opinion suggest that If the United States
as well as other industrial nations will put their national resources for fixing the nursing
problems then the need of recruiting foreign nurses will be decreased to a large extent.
References
Sachs, J. (2012). From millennium development goals to sustainable development goals. The
Lancet, 379(9832), 2206-2211.
United Nations Development Programme. (2015, 09 25). Millennium Development Goals.
Retrieved from United Nations Development Programme:
http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sdgoverview/mdg_goals.html
WOOGARA, N. (2011, 08 31). Being professional - what it means for nurses. Retrieved
from Nursing Times: https://www.nursingtimes.net/students/being-professional-what-
it-means-for-nurses/5027769.article
World health organization. (2015). Health and the Millennium Development Goals. Retrieved
from World health organization: https://www.who.int/hdp/publications/mdg_en.pdf