Nursing Profession Management

Question: What is the impact to the nursing profession and to the public related to the projected nursing shortage? Discuss at least one way that the nursing profession is working toward a resolution of this problem. Answer: It can be said that nursing has been an important pillar of healthcare delivery and services. The private and public hospitals would not be able to manage their operations without the support of nurses. The shortage of nurses is an important issue not only for hospitals and medical institutions but also for different stakeholders such as patients, families and society. These stakeholders have realized that the shortage of nursing can have a serious impact on healthcare services and delivery (Robertson, 2011). There could be both internal and external reasons of this shortage. The internal reason would include motivation of employees, working conditions given to nurses etc. The external factors would include industry factors, economic factors, political factors etc. It is important that stakeholders and policy makers should manage both internal and external factor to ensure that nurses remain motivated to work. Hospitals, medical organizations and other stakeholders have taken different steps to manage the issue of shortage of nurses. One of an important step is to improve the working conditions (Degnan, 2011). It is believed that nurses have to work and operate under lot of mental pressure. The working conditions could actually help nurses to reduce the mental pressure. It is important that nurses should be given freedom and independence to work. Often, nurses have to work in night shifts. It would be good if they were allowed to choose their own working shift. References Pande, A. H., Ross-Degnan, D., Zaslavsky, A. M., Salomon, J. A. (2011). Effects of healthcare reforms on coverage, access, and disparities: quasi-experimental analysis of evidence from Massachusetts.American journal of preventive medicine,41(1), 1-8. Schoen, C., Doty, M. M., Robertson, R. H., Collins, S. R. (2011). Affordable Care Act reforms could reduce the number of underinsured US adults by 70 percent.Health Affairs,30(9), 1762-1771.