Nursing shortages

Nursing Staff Shortages: Issues in Australian Residential Aged Care

Like many other countries in the world, Australia is grappling with a chronic shortage of registered nurses (RNs). All areas of nursing are currently affected by shortages and high care residential aged care services are no exception. Selection, recruitment and retention of suitable staff to meet the complex needs of residents in aged care facilities are becoming increasingly challenging and mu...

Not dead yet: the spectre of nursing human resource shortages.

since the late 1990s, the nursing shortage has occupied the attention of the profession, policy makers and employers (CNA 2009; WHO 2006). In this Special Issue of the Canadian Journal of Nursing Leadership, we have an opportunity to revisit the problem of nursing human resources from the standpoint of labour mobility. I say “revisit” because the problem has been sleeping in Canada, as many dec...

Nursing double degrees: a higher education initiative in times of nursing shortages

Public perceptions of nursing careers: the influence of the media and nursing shortages.

The high public regard for nurses has not necessarily translated into an adequate supply of individuals who are willing to be nurses. The expected future demand for nurse labor challenges us to look more closely at the public's perceptions of nursing and nursing careers, and consider how they are shaped by personal experience, media messages, and socio-demographic factors. As part of ongoing ef...

The causes and consequences of nursing shortages: a helicopter view of the research.

In Australia, as in most industrialised countries, there is an acute shortage of registered nurses. While there are numerous research reports emanating from Canada, the United States and Great Britain that provide insight into reasons for this shortage, little comparable work has been undertaken in Australia. This paper presents an overview of the complex interlinking set of factors which cause...