WCU The Nursing Workforce Faces Significant Bottlenecks Discussion
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first response:
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What are the reasons for these shortages? If the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into increasing nurse retention, would the need to recruit foreign nurses decrease? Why or why not?
Major causes of nursing shortages are inadequate workforce planning and allocation mechanisms, resource constraints, undersupply of new staff, poor recruitment, and retention as well as return policies, ineffective use of available nursing resources through inappropriate skill mix and utilization, poor incentive structures and inadequate career support. My view is that even if the United States and other industrial nations put their resources into fixing the problems of nursing shortage, the need to recruit foreign nurses will continue. Regardless of government incentives. A study done in the UK titled Nursing shortages: how bad will it get? identified 24,000 vacancies for nurses leaving many trusts with more than 200 posts vacant (Moore, 2017). This is also not the first time a major workforce crisis has happened within the nursing community. With nursing shortages comes recruitment form overseas that increase the number of nurses being trained to work in a specific nation and attracting them to continue their careers there as well. But due to years of pay restraint and increasing levels of stress in nursing roles, the image of becoming a nurse no longer looks promising (Moore, 2017). Which continues the need for recruitment of foreign nurses as this is an easy fix. The problem needs to be fixed on a deeper level to increase the desire of a population to become a nurse in the first place.
Choose one of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and discuss how a community nurse can work toward achieving that goal.
I am choosing sustainable development goal number three which is ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all, at all ages. I think this is extremely important especially for a community health nurse because if we identify the health disparities causing a population to have problems like shortened life expectancy due to chronic illnesses, we can begin to come up with solutions for eliminating what is causing the problem. If we have a vulnerable population that has an abundance of type 2 diabetes, a community health nurse can start to determine why this is so prevalent. If it is due to lack of education on how to be healthy as a community like buying fruits and vegetables and cooking at home rather than buying fast food or even skipping the produce aisle, then the source causing type 2 diabetes can be eliminated creating healthy living and promoting wellness for all in the community.
References
Moore , A. (2017). Nursing shortages: how bad will it get? Nursing Standard (2014+), 31(37), 26. http://dx.doi.org.westcoastuniversity.idm.oclc.org
second response:
Hi Class
Do you think a solution to the continued problem of nursing migration could be that recipient/source countries make contributions to help influence nurse migration in an optimistic direction? Why?
Prof G
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