Examining the Nursing Shortage Yuri Arcurs – Fotolia.com For years, we heard that a nursing shortage was imminent, projected to reach monumental proportions by the second to third decade of the new millennium and threatening to bring the U.S. healthcare system to its knees. However, many feel that t...
Read more →Barriers to Diversity in Nursing A recent Nurse-Family Partnership discussion outlined in Nurse.com sought to identify barriers to creating a more ethnically diverse workforce, as well as figuring out ways to create a more ethnically diverse workforce. Rob – Fotolia.com Several nursing leaders parti...
Read more →The Importance of a Healthy Nurse Workforce Nurses make up the largest group of health care providers, working in many different venues, from doctors’ offices to biotech firms. They regularly score very high on trustworthiness, and they have a huge impact on how health care is delivered and defined....
Read more →Improving Veteran Care Training Soldiers do so much to take care of us — we need to make sure we’re taking care of them, too. This observation is made by a nurse named Beverly Malone, in this article in the Chicago Tribune. It is about the need to ensure that nursing students know more about how to...
Read more →Public Opinion: Nursing and the Nursing Shortage The nursing profession enjoys a high rate of approval in the court of public opinion as a profession of “honesty and ethical standards.” Unfortunately, despite the public’s esteemed view of registered nurses, this perception has not inspired legions o...
Read more →Several Million Healthcare Workers Needed by 2020 Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com The United States is going to need 5.6 million new healthcare workers by 2020, according to a new study be researchers at Georgetown University. All but 1 million of those new workers are going to require post-secondary e...
Read more →Sending Nurses Back to School jumdero – Fotolia.com More and more hospitals are requiring that their nurses have at least a bachelor’s degree in nursing, according to this article in the New York Times. Jennifer Matton, for example, is working as a nurse right now. However she is working at a hospit...
Read more →Nursing Shortage, or Job Shortage? Rob – Fotolia.com This article in Forbes questions whether nursing has been overhyped as a career. It concludes, however, that nursing is still extraordinarily strong, even if the ebb and flow of jobs has not progressed exactly as predicted. Many nursing schools in...
Read more →Retention: Appealing to Different Generations Minerva Studio – Fotolia Generational theory “explains that the era in which a person was born affects the development of their view of the world”. People born in the same era tend to have similar value systems, which drive attitudes and behavior. This k...
Read more →Nursing, a Fulfilling Career Minerva Studio – Fotolia.com An article in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel points out that nursing may offer may options than many people realize. With nursing projected to grow faster than most other occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more and more...
Read more →Spotlight on Behavioral Health Nursing The nursing shortage is not uniform right now, as some geographical areas have plenty of nurses while others don’t, and some fields or specialties are facing shortages while others aren’t. One field that is currently looking for more nurses is mental health. Th...
Read more →Should Nurses Practice Alone? Image courtesy of DIAC Images via Flickr The question of whether nurse practitioners should be allowed to practice independently is being debated in Nebraska. Many nurse practitioners argue that there are many benefits to being able to work without physician oversight....
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