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Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue
Jadiam Lopez
MSN, Walden University
NURS-6053
Dr Leigh Ann Farmer
12/08/2021
Nursing is among the fastest-growing occupations in the United States through the nation still faces a significant shortfall of qualified nurses. The shortage may continue to be highly essential due to the aging population. The U.S. is speculated to go through a shortage of Registered Nurses which is expected to maximize as baby boomers age and the need for health care maximizes. The Registered Nursing workforce is speculated to grow from 2 million in 2019 to 3 million in 2029, a rise of 220,000 and 7%.
Impact of Nursing Shortages in an Organization
In 2014, a study was conducted in American hospitals regarding the nursing shortage. They found that a rise in nurses; workload by one patient maximized the possibility of dying in 30 days of admission by 7%. The researchers as well found out that each 10% rise in bachelor’s degree nurses was related to a drop in patient death by 7% (Haddad, Annamaraju, & Toney-Butler, 2020). Insufficient nurse staffing is as well associated with high patient mortality rates. In facilities with a limited number of nurses, the mortality risk for patients tends to be about 6% more on units that were understaffed in comparison to the well-staffed units. When a nurse’s workload is high due to high patient turnover, mortality risk as well tends to rise. Based on a study conducted by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (2020), there tends to be 4.9 fewer death in 10000 patients on intensive care units that are staffed with a high percentage of nurses with bachelor’s degrees.
Summary of the articles
The article by Mark et al. (2019) aims to deal with the identified causes of the nursing shortage in health care facilities and other nations. According to the findings of this study, the nursing shortage causes tend to be multifaceted without worldwide or local evaluation of its nature, inefficient planning and use of accessible nursing resources, ineffective recruitment or undersupply of the news staff, and worldwide people’s health conditions. Nursing shortages tend to be at a critical point of healthcare services on both the local and worldwide levels. The nursing policy needs to prepare as well as put in place national social security aims in the services offered by the nurses. The program may involve general issues, which may involve enhancing working and employment conditions, making use of mechanism managing salary, and offering the chances for long-term learning with the use of mobile and technological creativity as a sustainable solution.
The article by Seren and his associates (2019) found out that nursing shortage is the main issue in healthcare. Nurses' commitments are an essential issue that should be addressed. The study majored in evaluating the impact of job satisfaction as well as work contexts on the nurses’ organizational commitment. The establishment of techniques for maximizing job satisfaction in nurses and developing a positive work environment might lead administrators to maximize organizational commitment in assisting to the issue of nursing shortage.
Strategies to address the organization of national healthcare issue
The involvement of nursing policy is one of the solutions that can be used in handling shortages of nurses. The new policies may involve effective payment agreements, emergency hiring plans, registered nurse’s residency plans, special contracting systems, allowance directives, as well as recruiting and guaranteeing incentives for nursing graduates and full-time National government employment. If the existing policies remain, they will apply downward pressure on nursing workforce wages and benefits. Hospitals' wage and working conditions decisions greatly impact whether it's easy or difficult to recruit and retain nurses. If working in an ambulatory care setting is less stressful and more gratifying than working in a hospital, hospitals might raise compensation to compensate for the disparities in working circumstances and recruit more nurses (Mark et al., 2019). Better employment offers in health care facilities tend to attract nurses and reduce turnover. However, implementing these policies may be expensive for the facility. Increasing the wages for the nurses may be costly to the facility.
According to Seren et al. (2019), the establishment of techniques used to maximize job satisfaction among nurses and develop a positive work environment may lead administrators to maximize organizational commitment in helping to the nursing shortage issue. A satisfying work environment for nurses allows them to implement nursing skills, make autonomous nursing care choices and enhance high nursing or clinical competence in their professional lives—health care facilities. Health care facilities can create a positive work environment by building an environment in which humor is encouraged. Nurses also require a safe place to voice their issues and ideas.
The nursing shortage is a global issue that is facing the health care system. Without implementing any decisive actions, nurses will have to work under too much stress. The nurses tend to feel the weight of the increased aging population and increased access to public health care.
References
American Association of Colleges of Nursing. (2020). Nursing Shortage. Retrieved from https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-information/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage
Haddad, L., Annamaraju, P., & Toney-Butler, T. (2020). Nursing Shortage. StatPearls. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK493175/
Marć, M., Bartosiewicz, A., Burzyńska, J., Chmiel, Z., & Januszewicz, P. (2019). A nursing shortage–a prospect of global and local policies. International nursing review, 66(1), 9-16.
Seren Intepeler, S., Esrefgil, G., Yilmazmis, F., Bengu, N., Gunes Dinc, N., Ileri, S., & Dirik, H. F. (2019). Role of job satisfaction and work environment on the organizational commitment of nurses: a cross-sectional study. Contemporary Nurse, 55(4-5), 380-390.
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Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue
Jadiam Lopez
MSN, Walden University
NURS
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6053
Dr Leigh Ann Farmer
12/08/2021
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Analysis of a Pertinent Healthcare Issue
Jadiam Lopez
MSN, Walden University
NURS-6053
Dr Leigh Ann Farmer
12/08/2021