Nursing Shortage Outlook

Dr. Peter McMenamin, ANA health economist, will explain the impact of current and future employment market conditions on care shortage.

Peter McMenamin: No. As for what happened, a skilled nurse postponed retirement. Approximately 140,000 new nurses each year have passed the certification exam of registered nurses. Several years ago, we estimate that 73,000 nurses each year quit their jobs. Therefore, new graduates are being narrowed now. There are luxury goods in the hospital

However, why is the employment prospects good? I think many nurses acquired a bachelor 's degree in the 1970' s. They represent over 40% of employed nurses who can not postpone retirement forever. As recovery comes, what happens is retirement. For the hospital, we can be in short-term care

Peter McMinner: It's up to the economy. In the short term, a little bubble has occurred. We are training more and more new nurses and we need more new nurses. But until a mature nurse retired, this was a little unprocessed work. We anticipate it will change in 2013. When the [state] medical insurance exchange is actually recruiting people in 2014, it almost certainly changes.

Q: Will the overall demand for insurance and health care for millions of uninsured people increase the demand for nurses?

Peter McMenamin: Six factors influencing care shortage: 1) economic recovery, 2) baby boomer generation, 3) affordable medical care, 4) employer change, 5) market change, and 6) care adjustment . These factors will increase the demand for RN. For example, in the next 30 years, every year 2 million to 3 million baby boomers will join health insurance. This will continue to increase the demand of nurses

Even if the number of nurses is insufficient, there is no positive effect on any country or medical field in the world. The shortage of nurses lacks adequate rapid rehabilitation care and may adversely affect the health of patients. On the financial side, this shortage affects the high mortality rate of hospitals. This is caused by the loss of funds invested in patients and hopes to recover. Death is also a loss of domestic labor and skills resources. If there is enough staff, the death is itself a loss, and the hospital can provide high-quality, timely medical services to each patient.

The lack of teachers in nursing is nothing new. In early 2002, nursing academic journal called the shortage of nurses "awful situation" (Berlin and Sechrist, 2002). One of the main problems faced by nursing educators is that the rate of compensation in acute care or clinical practice is much higher (Siela, Twibell and Keller, 2009). Another reason for the shortage of teachers is that the wave of retirement of teachers continues and contributes to the status of 200-300 nursing teachers offered each year (American College of Nursing Association, 2012) . The lack of available teachers can affect student nurses in various ways. Most notably, it limits the number of students that can be accepted into nursing care programs. Another impact is that it reduces the availability of the required course, leads to space competition in the classroom, and may lead to graduation delay.

Reducing the shortage of nurse teachers is a priority. Labor analysts discovered that there are many reasons for registered shortage of registered nurses (RN), but the belief that the main reason for the expansion of the US (US) crisis is the decrease in the population of nurses is rising I will. The rapid aging of RN staff, increased nursing care demand, and inadequate pipelining of nurses with master's and doctoral degrees are the cause of lack of care in the US and are expected to last at least until 2025 (Buerhaus, Staiger, & Auerbach, 2008). The main focus of stakeholders trying to cope with the deficiency is to prepare more nurse educators so that nursing schools can expand their capacity and respond to all those seeking nurses It is an urgent necessity.