Nursing Shortage

Resolving the nursing shortage: nursing job satisfaction on the rise.

A physician prescription for the nursing shortage.

In 2003, the Colorado Permanente Medical Group (CPMG), a 780-member, multispecialty physician group that provides ambulatory and hospital care principally in metropolitan Denver and Boulder, embarked upon a multifaceted program to leverage physician leadership to address the nursing shortage. Designated as the "Preferred Clinical Partner Program" (the PCP Program), CPMG sought to participate in...

The nursing shortage: a worldwide problem.

A worldwide shortage of nurses has been acknowledged by the multidisciplinary Global Advisory Group of the World Health Organization. The shortage is caused by an increased demand for nurses, while fewer people are choosing nursing as a profession and the current nurses worldwide are aging. The shortage applies to nurses in practice as well as the nurse faculty who teach students. The inter-cou...

Is nursing shortage in Israel inevitable?

Israel has a low density of professional nurses. New evidence suggests less than optimal hospital work environments may undermine efficient and effective delivery of nursing care and contribute to job dissatisfaction and nurse turnover among nurses who are in short supply. Potential approaches to address these challenges are discussed.

A shortage of caring in British nursing?

There is nothing new about the tension between human and economic values in the provision of health care, and nursing has never been immune from the pressures that come with this clash of values. Indeed, a cursory glance at almost any commentary on the state of health care or on the state of nursing reveals a depressing litany of failures of care set against a background of financial imperative...