A Crisis Of Epic Proportions The Reasons For Nursing Shortages
ursing shortages are not this job for you. Many students
something the average lack the ability to academically
citizen thinks about every succeed and pass the NCLEX
day. However, if they knew how (National Council Licensure
understaffed most hospitals and Examination) – state board of
emergency rooms were – they'd be nursing exam.
panicking all over the place. One
estimate is that every hospital Further, once the nursing license
in America is only 55 to 60% is achieved then the work really
fully staffed at any given time. begins. Nurses tend to work 12
One estimate is that every hour a day shifts 3 to 4 days a
hospital in America is only 55 to week (plus call-in days due to
60% fully staffed at any given the shortage of good nurses).
time. Frankly, that's a pretty Depending on the floor the
alarming statistic. Nursing professional chooses, a nurse can
shortages cause patient overload, take 6 to 8 patients (ICU and CCU
lack of timely care, burn out in nurses take 1 to 2). There is
the profession and crucial care rarely time to take a break, talk
issues left unresolved. What is on the phone to check up on kids,
causing this lack of care? or check email. Nursing is a
non-stop profession.
It's a Hard Job
The reason for this is often
Nursing is a profession that because nursing is more like
requires both educational being a doctor than being a care
development and physical giver. As more responsibility for
commitment. There is a lot of treatment falls to nurses without
memorization and skill adequate compensation for these
maintenance required in modern skills, the profession keeps
nursing. A computer cannot do losing out on good people who
want to use their abilities in a need for continuing education
more lucrative and less demanding cause nurses to leave the
environment. profession early or burn out and
transition into another
Other Opportunities environment. The top divorce and
mental health care rates in
Many nurses who begin working in medicine belong to nurses.
a hospital setting soon gain Dealing with grief, difficult
specialty certifications or use situations and patient's families
their nursing degree in non-care who expect unrealistic abilities
giving capacities. Insurance (a nurse with 8 patients can't
companies often hire RN's as spend all day fluffing the pillow
claims processors because of of one) cause a strain that
their knowledge of the medical cannot always be prevented and
process. Pharmaceutical companies brings about a high attrition
hire nurses to be drug reps, rate.
testers, and representatives.
Many nurses are combining their The most important thing the
nursing certification with a law health care community can do to
degree and working in the field solve this shortage is to provide
of malpractice lawsuits – usually compensated education, support
as advocates for the health care and staff services and limit the
system to the courts. extra hours a nurse can be called
in. Only when the nursing
Burn Out and Bail Out shortage crisis is addressed will
these problems be alleviated and
The demanding hours, the strain the national health care crisis
of patient care often unsupported averted.
by management and the constant
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