Download or read book The CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE NURSING FACULTY SHORTAGE written by Patricia I. Newman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current qualitative phenomenological study involved identifying and exploring the factors contributing to the nursing faculty shortage of Western Massachusetts. Through interviews, 24 participants, including 5 for the pilot study, identified and discussed the reasons why they chose not to teach, or to continue to teach, and why registered nurses did not choose faculty teaching as a career track in education. Poor salaries were the primary factor contributing to the shortage of nursing faculty in Western Massachusetts. Participants provided personal insight and suggestions concerning various educational institutions in Western Massachusetts and participated in a Massachusetts survey that examined many suggestions to alleviate the faculty shortage in Western Massachusetts.

Download or read book How the Lack of Higher Education Faculty Contributes to America s Nursing Shortage Part I written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How the Lack of Higher Education Faculty Contributes to America s Nursing Shortage Part II written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Academic Nurse Faculty Shortage written by Lynn R. Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an academic nurse faculty shortage in the nation that is a contributing factor to the current nursing shortage. The purpose of this study was to investigate the career orientations of master's prepared nurses with a nurse educator focus in order to gain a better understanding of their career choice in academia, staff development, or another area of nursing.

Download or read book How the Lack of Higher Education Faculty Contributes to America s Nursing Shortage Part I November 30 2005 in Greeley Colorado written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book How the Lack of Higher Education Faculty Contributes to America s Nursing Shortage Part I December 2 2005 in Henderson Nevada written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Nursing Shortage written by Breah Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While hospitals are facing an endless number of challenges ranging from financial challenges to healthcare reform implementation to patient safety and quality, a challenge that has proven to be consistently plaguing hospitals is the efficient staffing of nurses. According to the American College of Healthcare Executives, shortage of staff has been in the top five issues facing hospital CEOs (Hospital, 2011). In the past few years, the healthcare industry contributes more jobs to the economy than any other industry. Even though this is the case, the demand for some health professionals is still greater than the supply available. The exact number of nurses in demand varies from hospital to hospital, publication to publication, but the overall consensus remains the same: there are not enough nurses currently working and the problem is going to continue to get worse. The reason for this nursing shortage cannot be easily explained, as there are several contributing factors. The nursing shortage has been growing since the 1980s and becoming increasingly severe. It has been projected that the shortage could reach 800,000 nurses by the year 2020 (HeartMath, 2004). It was originally believed that this shortage was caused by the increasing demand of health care services due to the aging population. During the 1990s, there were attempts to recruit more nurses and this seemed like a simple solution to the problem. However, even with the growing number of students entering nursing school, the shortage continued to grow (HeartMath, 2004). These factors were making it clear that the nursing problem was complex and worthy of further exploration. This capstone will provide an understanding of the numerous factors that contribute to the nursing shortage, explore the impact of the nursing shortage on the health care system, and iv will help identify possible solutions to the growing problem. The major factors contributing to the nursing shortage problem include: 1. Workplace Climate 2. Shortage of Experienced Nursing Faculty After these factors are explored and identified, the impact of the nursing shortage on health care will be presented, and long-term and short-term solutions to the problem will be discussed and evaluated. Long-term solutions include increased recruitment of nurses through the expansion of facilities and the retainment of faculty in schools. Another long-term solution is the participation of hospitals in the development and aid to existing schools. A final long-term solution to the nursing shortage is the development of public-private partnerships to implement policy that will help to turn the problem around and foster relationships between stakeholders that have similar interests in different fields. Short-term solutions include the retention of current nurses through reward accomplishment, providing an attractive compensation and benefits plan, and offering job stability. Other short-term solutions include the utilization of technology-based training, and redesigning work content and the role of the nurse to be more flexible in nature. A final short-term solution is the implementation of an automated staffing system that will help provide more power to the nurses and help with job satisfaction. The nursing shortage currently in effect is expected to get worse before it gets better. A report done by Price Waterhouse Cooper forecasts a registered nurse shortage ranging from 400,000 to one million by the year 2020. The combination of an increasing demand for services and the constant decline of nurses available is compounding the problem by adding pressure to the supply and demand forces at work (Neisner, 2002). Nurses have increasingly become v perceived as undervalued and overworked with less than desirable working conditions. There are various reasons that lead to the complex nursing shortage problem.

Download or read book The Future of Nursing written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of Nursing explores how nurses' roles, responsibilities, and education should change significantly to meet the increased demand for care that will be created by health care reform and to advance improvements in America's increasingly complex health system. At more than 3 million in number, nurses make up the single largest segment of the health care work force. They also spend the greatest amount of time in delivering patient care as a profession. Nurses therefore have valuable insights and unique abilities to contribute as partners with other health care professionals in improving the quality and safety of care as envisioned in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted this year. Nurses should be fully engaged with other health professionals and assume leadership roles in redesigning care in the United States. To ensure its members are well-prepared, the profession should institute residency training for nurses, increase the percentage of nurses who attain a bachelor's degree to 80 percent by 2020, and double the number who pursue doctorates. Furthermore, regulatory and institutional obstacles-including limits on nurses' scope of practice-should be removed so that the health system can reap the full benefit of nurses' training, skills, and knowledge in patient care. In this book, the Institute of Medicine makes recommendations for an action-oriented blueprint for the future of nursing.

Download or read book The Nursing Faculty Shortage written by Karl D. Yordy and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Academic Incivility in Nursing Education written by Sherri Hammersmith Marlow and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-documented and growing problem impacting the nursing shortage in the United States is the increasing shortage of qualified nursing faculty. Many factors contribute to the nursing faculty shortage such as retirement, dissatisfaction with the nursing faculty role and low salary compensation. Academic incivility has been identified as contributing to nursing faculty role dissatisfaction. Academic incivility diminishes the presence of a caring environment, lowers an individual's self-esteem, and negatively impacts the formation of caring relationships. Nursing faculty members who experience significant and ongoing academic incivility indicate they will leave nursing education as a career. The purpose of this Academic Incivility in Nursing Education (AINE) Project was to promote the utilization of evidence-based strategies to develop a civil educational environment for nursing faculty through active engagement and dialogue among a group of nursing faculty to address academic incivility. This AINE Project purpose was achieved by surveying a group of nursing faculty regarding their perceptions and experiences with academic incivility. Two continuing education sessions were provided to address academic incivility and to promote a civil educational environment. The findings from this AINE Project supported the conjecture that when academic incivility is perceived as mild within an educational environment, there is increased work satisfaction and a positive relational engagement between the nursing faculty members.

Download or read book How the lack of higher education faculty contributes to America s nursing shortage part II written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Select Education and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Patient Safety and Quality written by Ronda Hughes and published by Department of Health and Human Services. This book was released on 2008 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/

Download or read book The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States written by Peter Buerhaus and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Future of the Nursing Workforce in the United States: Data, Trends and Implications provides a timely, comprehensive, and integrated body of data supported by rich discussion of the forces shaping the nursing workforce in the US. Using plain, jargon free language, the book identifies and describes the key changes in the current nursing workforce and provide insights about what is likely to develop in the future. The Future of the Nursing Workforce offers an in-depth discussion of specific policy options to help employers, educators, and policymakers design and implement actions aimed at strengthening the current and future RN workforce. The only book of its kind, this renowned author team presents extensive data, exhibits and tables on the nurse labor market, how the composition of the workforce is evolving, changes occurring in the work environment where nurses practice their profession, and on the publics opinion of the nursing profession.

Download or read book How the Lack of Higher Education Faculty Contributes to America s Nursing Shortage Part I written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Statewide Study of Nursing Faculty Intent to Leave Academe written by Kathleen Ann Gravens and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National predictions forecast a significant shortage of registered nurses by 2020, with one of the major causes of the shortage being a lack of qualified nurse educators. Predictions for the state of Ohio mirror the national picture; however, there is little research about nursing faculty in the state, or their intentions related to their academic role. This dissertation analyzed what factors, if any, predict intent to leave academe within five years. Participants included 426 full-time nursing faculty from 60 public and private, not-for-profit nursing programs in Ohio, including both pre-licensure and advanced degree programs. A web-based survey was used to obtain faculty data. Blocked stepwise regression analysis revealed four significant predictors of intent to leave academe within five years - age, years ago highest nursing and non-nursing degree were earned, and overall satisfaction. The results of the research can be used to guide the development of strategies to retain nursing faculty in academe in the state of Ohio. Future research should be encouraged to explore the underlying issue related to the faculty shortage and its implications for the nursing shortage.

Download or read book The Nursing Shortage in the United States written by Rachel Sedota and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been noted by many authors that nurses comprise the largest percentage of health care providers in the United States. At various times in the history of the profession, nursing shortages have existed due to a variety of factors. This paper will not only provide a description of nursing shortages in the past, but it also discusses the current nursing shortage in the United States. This paper uses research by means of literary analysis on the topic of the United States nursing shortage and there were no gaps identified in the literature review. First, a brief history of nursing shortages is provided. Contributing factors to the shortage such as retiring baby boomers, decreased numbers of nursing faculty, and an expansion in nurse workloads are examined. Several solutions to combat the shortage were discovered in the literature review. Retaining aging nurses, increasing faculty and student enrollments in nursing programs, and ways to reduce nurse burnout are investigated. Nurses need to promote nursing as a profession to students as a potential career choice. Future projections of the nursing shortage across the United States will necessitate innovative solutions to address this far-reaching problem.

Download or read book Gender Practice and Policy written by LaWanda Herron and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation is facing a critical shortage of registered nurses (Keller & Jones, 2004). At a time when the health care industry requires more nurses, the capacity of the nursing education system is diminishing (Henry & Zane, 2006). The nursing shortage is intricately tied to the nursing faculty shortage (AACN, 2006). The shortage of nurses requires educational programs to supply more graduates; however, the shortage of nursing faculty limits student enrollments and likely decreases the number of graduates. The nursing shortage is due, in the past, to a decrease in the number of individuals entering the profession. Additionally, an inadequate number of teaching facilities, a limited number of clinical sites, and decreased availability of qualified nursing faculty are contributing to the shortage (AACN, 2006). Nursing is bound in an ideology based on women's duty and members of the profession have had to battle sexist beliefs and values (Orla & Reilly, 2003). Hierarchies within the health care system and academia place the status of women subservient to men. Subsequently, the crisis in the nursing profession cannot be explored without examining the relationship between the role of the nurse and the position of women (Kane & Thomas, 2000). The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the influence of gender, practice, and policy on the nursing faculty shortage as perceived by nurse educators. Using a qualitative approach through the phenomenological method, the researcher elicited information about lived experiences of female nurse educators. Feminist critical analysis provided the framework to explore the nursing faculty shortage. Two major themes were revealed: "Being a woman, nurse, and faculty member" and "Gender-role conflict." Minor themes that expressed the richness of the major themes included: gender role orientation, reward and punishment in higher education, paradoxical communication, us and them mentality, lack of support within the profession, and more career opportunities for women. The data indicated nurse educators perceive that employment in gendered institutions may influence their work environments, compensation levels, and federal and state policy development thus contributing to the nursing faculty shortage.