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In eight pages this paper discusses Canada's nursing shortage problems as they pertain to the hospital environment. Eight sources...

30 months, as this is when between 13 and 28 percent of senior nurses are due to retire (Sibbald, 2003). Currently, close to a thi...

Statistics expects that number to rise to more than one million in less than 20 years. The American Nurses Association and Monste...

that not only were nurses retained but that everyone on staff is motivated to be actively engaged and involved in the work environ...

higher nurse-to-patient ratios suffer an increased rate of burnout and experience greater dissatisfaction with their jobs. In resp...

established that nurses are often involved in the "timely identification of complications," which, if acted upon swiftly, prevent ...

Hospital. The purpose here is to describe and evaluate the restructuring of St. Vincents ICU to gain one-on-one nursing and so im...

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

divert status at least three times a week for the last year, with the exception of the only level one trauma center in Nevada, whi...

Roughly 50 percent of the current working nursing population will retire within the next 15 years (Mee and Robinson, 2003). Adding...

nurses are part of this generation and a large majority of nurses are retiring. It has been estimated that 50 percent of the count...

be increased substantially, of course, by those immigrants families who would likely be admitted to the country as well. The inte...

that they are often asked to take care of more patients with higher acuity levels than they have in the past (Hassmiller and Cozin...

(Green, 2004a). A travel nurse, on the other hand, is typically contracted to work a 13-week period, and this usually includes an ...

A pertinent issue to foreign nurse recruitment, as a method for alleviating the shortage of nurses in US hospitals, is the number ...

considering this economic downturn, the numbers of undergraduates pursuing nursing careers began to also decline. In 1991, Canada ...

the new paradigm becomes the new standard. Lewin once commented, "If you want to truly understand something, try to change it" (Go...

the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that it is no longer only added stress and long hours for those nurses ...

age. Therefore, the patient population is increasing. This factor is also influenced by the fact that that the huge lump in the Am...

interests and values considered and respected in the decision-making process" (Fly and Johnstone, 2002). This rationale is undoubt...

some determining the study was inconclusive, others saying certain interventions should be made universal and still others stating...

in the U.S. stands at 8.5 percent to over 14 percent, depending on the specific area of specialty (Letvak and Buck, 2008), by 2020...

and Robinson, 2003). Another element complicating the problem is the fact that in the early 1990s, many hospitals restructured a...

$4,722,847 (anticipated revenue) and then dividing that by 25 (number of beds) x $119,655 (the cost for each additional bed added)...

a drivable distance. This rural population currently exceeds 35 million in the country (America Telemedicine Association, 2007). ...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

This essay is about proposed policies and legislation that addressed the nursing shortage. It also brings in proposed changed to M...

up billboards offering cash incentives, while nursing schools also originated creative means of recruiting more students (Wells). ...

information about the shortage of nurses and the consequences. This was achieved as demonstrated in the following brief report of ...