Can Education Resolve Nursing Shortage in China?

Comparison of Nursing Education System in Iran and China

Background and Objective: Establishing and implementing high quality of nursing care for patients is the main objective of any nursing education system. However, the lack of proficient nurses all over the world led to a competition and collaboration among countries to train as much nurses with high skills and knowledge as possible. This paper aims at studying and comparing two nursing education...

Is Distance Education the Answer to the Nursing Shortage?

This study examined the effectiveness of distance education compared with campus based learning among nursing students. Distance education in nursing curricula is increasing. Academic nurse leaders must demonstrate the effectiveness of distance learning. This study is unique in that two cohorts, distance learners and campus learners, were taught synchronously by the same faculty member. Quantit...

Distance education: one solution to the nursing shortage?

Shifting the clinical teaching paradigm in undergraduate nursing education to address the nursing faculty shortage.

To address the faculty shortage problem, schools of nursing are reexamining how they provide clinical education to undergraduate students to find ways to use faculty resources more efficiently and to maintain student enrollment. We describe a unique clinical teaching model implemented at the New York University College of Nursing. The new model currently being evaluated shifts from the traditio...

Analysis of a government policy to address nursing shortage and nursing education quality.

BACKGROUND A well-educated, sufficient nursing workforce improves population health and standards of nursing care. Analysing workforce policies assists nurses to learn from the past and develop better future policies. AIM Describe policy-making processes in the first Thai government plan to increase nursing capacity and improve nursing education quality. DESIGN A qualitative study employing...