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Mitigating the Nursing Shortage Crisis: A Nurse’s Perspective

American Nurse

It’s clear that the state of the nursing shortage is at a crisis level. As an experienced bedside nurse, a recent nursing psychiatric/mental health graduate student, and a clinical adjunct faculty instructor, I have a strong opinion about what must be done. This is the state of nursing. February 27, 2019.

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Critical Nursing Shortage Jeopardizes the Health of our Communities, Pending NYS Bill Can Help

Daily Nurse

This has resulted in large numbers of nurses and other healthcare workers retiring or simply leaving the profession. These statistics help illustrate the magnitude of the problem: From 2019 to 2020, job vacancies for nursing personnel increased up to 30%, and the trend is expected to persist, with an estimated shortage of up to 3.2

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Nursing Shortage Crisis

SelfCare for HealthCare

The country may see a nursing shortage of between 200,000 and 450,000 registered nurses (RNs) by 2025 if healthcare stakeholders and federal leaders do not take action to address the dwindling workforce, according to a report from McKinsey & Company. Among those RNs, 15 percent intended to leave the workforce altogether.

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How the Public’s Perception of Nursing Impacts the Profession

Nurse.com

For decades, nurses were only cast as women and were traditionally background characters acting on the periphery or supporting male doctors, surgeons, etc. Many female nurses have courageously shared their stories and lobbied for better policies to be put in place to protect them.

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LPNs in modified care delivery models

American Nurse

Nurse leaders from a mid-Atlantic 12-hospital health system reviewed best practices for improving unit outcomes and identified a need for modified care delivery models. A care delivery model redesign, featuring licensed practical nurses) in an expert-led team-based approach was measured for success. J Nurses Prof Dev.

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Meet a Champion of Nursing Diversity: Kendra Coles

Minority Nurse

Since 2019, Coles has been Director of Women’s & Children’s Services at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center (UM BWMC). I completed my Master of Science in Nursing in 2009 as UM BWMC started recruiting for their new OB program leadership and staff.

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Supporting Mothers in Healthcare

Premier Medical Staffing

Additionally, women outnumbered men in medical schools for the first time in history in 2019. Between 2015 and 2019, 84.3% Providing much-needed support for mothers in healthcare is crucial to breaking the cycle of nurse shortages , increased clinician workload, and healthcare workers leaving their jobs.