Nursing Shortage And Nurse Turn-Over

Nursing Shortage and Nurse Turn-Over

Introduction

There are several factors that are responsible for the shortage of nursing workforce around the world. The characteristics of these factors range from the instructional features to remuneration concern. Hence, a credible plan must be constructed in order to sort any concern regarding the nurse-to-patient ratio anomaly. Today, the U.S is facing a nursing shortage. This shortage projects to worsen so that by the year 2020 the RN workforce will be 20 percent lower than that needed to fill demands. When an RN workforce shortage exists a concomitant effect on LPNs and LPN employers since both serve a vital complement to healthcare delivery and both make up a significant percent of persons on the healthcare team. (Coombs, 2011).

RWJF and AARP recognize that it will take leadership and sustained efforts across national, state and local levels to fulfill the promise of the IOM report.In the present critical shortage employers must design increasingly flexible shift options so that nurses can get time off for vacations, to enjoy their children's breaks and vacations in their school schedule with them, and to accommodate parents with childcare interests and needs.

Nursing Shortage Stats

The number of nurses per 10,000 population varies from 1.1 in Haiti to the ideal figure of 97.2 in the United States. "There are 15 countries that have fewer than 10 nurses per 10,000 population and the regional average of 30 nurses in that proportion," says the document Overview of the nursing workforce in Latin America. According to World Bank data, much of health care in the hemisphere rests on the shoulders of nurses. 90% of child care to healthy children health services in Chile are provided by nurses. Also 90% of public mental health and psychiatry in Belize. In Rio Coco in Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, 88% of outpatient visits are decided by nurses. (Coombs, 2011).

And additional data shows that the quality of nursing care is vital. According to a study published in the Bulletin of the American Medical Association, add a single patient should have four by a nurse, within 30 days, increases the risk of patient death by 7 %. And this percentage grows in proportion to the number of patients "extra".In the U.S., a projection of the Department of Health and Human Services estimates that the shortage of nurses in the country for 2010 will be 275,000, and 2020, 800,000. (Coombs, 2011).

Nurses are needed more than ever today life expectancy is longer, so more people with chronic conditions who need care. In the Caribbean, the second region with the highest rate of HIV infection after sub-Saharan Africa, the need for nurses is critical, especially for the care of people living with AIDS.

Thus, institutions that bring together health workers wanted to emphasize the training: they need more and better nurses, so that the profession does not age or be disqualified. In addition, the PAHO report says that "nurses are increasingly developing administrative procedures to reduce the time to care for patients, a ...