Nursing Educational System

Citation 1:

Richardson, Karlene. ""The Impact of Retiring Baby Boomers on Nursing Shortage.""

The Journal of Global Health Care Systems, vo. 1, no. 1, 2018, Users/crystaldiva/Downloads/547-Article%20Text-2732-1-10-20181011.pdf. Accessed 1 Nov. 2018.

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This scholarly journal is about the effects that aging baby boomers, born 1946-1964, will have on the health care system in the United States. Not only do the daily numbers of 65 years olds increase the need for patient care of the elderly, the nursing workforce is also included in the number of aging baby boomers. Baby boomers are the largest demographic in the United States. This article goes on to say that the depleting workforce, because of aging baby boomers, will need to be revitalized. Senators have implemented legislature to address the dwindling nursing workforce with incentives and regulations to induce continuing education and financial incentives to increase nursing numbers.

Richardson has written descriptively about is an approach in seeking to illuminate a subject currently being experienced across the United States. This article is aimed at answering interrogative types of questions, for example: who, what, where, how and why. This is a good article to use in my paper and shows what the contributing factors are to the ever-increasing nursing shortage across the United States.

Citation 2:

Snavely, Timothy M. Data Watch. A Brief Economic Analysis of the Looming Nursing Shortage In the United States. Nursing Economic$, vol. 34, no. 2, Mar. 2016, pp. 98–100. EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hch&AN=114616391&site=ehost-live. Accessed 1 Nov. 2018.

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This article talks about nursing shortages throughout the years as being cyclical. Additionally, the authors state that the sufficient number of nurses in known as being in a state of ""equilibrium"". In the early 2000's there was an equal ratio of jobs and nurses. In the recession years of 2007-2008 many nurses had to come out of retirement to go back into the workforce for financial reasons; the only wave of employment to increase in these two recession years. Today the two-pronged economic stressor is the approach of aging nurses that are eligible for retirement and the economic security allowing nurses to go into early retirement. Additionally, the aging community requires additional nurses in the workforce to meet the rising demands of the increasing medical requirements.

Another critical contribution factor is that schools are not properly equipped to handle an influx of nursing students. Schools are turning away thousands of students. Stressful and physical job demands also cause early burnout and the attrition rate is high for new nurses.

This is an excellent article to use in my term paper with good statistical information on economic impact and the impact on human resources.

Citation 3:

Pelayo, Lula W. ""Responding to the nursing shortage: collaborations in an innovative paradigm for nursing education."" Nursing Education Perspectives, vol. 34, no. 5, 2013, p. 351+. Academic OneFile, https://link.galegroup.com.ezproxy.saddleback.edu/apps/doc/A345456897/AONE?u=saddleback_col&sid=AONE&xid=de4d849a. Accessed 2 Nov. 2018.

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Pelayo's article addresses the nursing shortage from the perspective of limited teaching and training facilities. Based in Texas, she discusses the states approach to solving the nursing education issues. Coupled with limited facilities, a large number of nurses are in the baby boomer age group and are ready to retire. Adding to the problem is the decline of nurses under the age of 40. The approaches to training future nurses include adding more simulations and a multi level degree for nurses. Furthermore, Pelayo discusses what the state of Texas has already implemented to increase enrollment for students and how they are creating future educators while simultaneously providing advanced degrees in the nursing programs.

Pelayo's perspective is a shift in thinking about a growing issue. This is an informative paper outlining the details of how one state has addressed the issue of limited medical facilities that are required for proper training and limited teaching faculty. This article has some useful information in providing solutions.

Citation 4

National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice. The Impact of the Nursing Faculty Shortage on Nurse Education and Practice.""

www.hrsa.gov/advisorycommittees/bhpradvisory/nacnep/Reports/ninthreport.pdf

Accessed 14 Nov. 2018.

Annotation 4

This report is written by the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice. It serves to advise the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Congress. This council provides information to the Secretary and Congress regarding nursing issues and practices. This report also addresses the impact that the nurse faculty shortage has on the education of future nurses and their practice. Many experts give their time and recommendations to this council regarding the nursing shortage. The focus of this report is the lack of educators available to a growing number of nurses that will be required to care for the aging population of the United States as well as the amount of the nurse workforce that will also be retiring. An outline of the observed problems within the educational community is provided. Additionally, recruitment problems are numerated and discussed.

I think this is an excellent resource for my paper because of the amount of statistical and analytical information included in the report. There is a large collective of education and experience that has filtered through and processed relevant information regarding this nursing shortage situation.

Citation 5

Gorski, Mary Sue PhD, RN; Gerardi, Tina MS, RN; Giddens, Jean PhD, RN, FAAN; Meyer, Donna MSN, RN; Peters-Lewis, Angelleen PhD, RN. ""Nursing Education Transformation."" ?‚merican Journal of Nursing, vol. 115, no. 4, 2015, journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2015/04000/Nursing_Education_Transformation.26.aspx#. Accessed 14 Nov. 2018.

This article has information on how to address the educational shortfall, which impacts the number of nurses that can be trained. Also, included is how nurses have been typically educated and the structure of the different types of nursing degrees. The authors agree that a new infrastructure should be designed and implemented to meet the increasing demands of qualified nursing. Additionally, included with the discussion of qualifications of the future nurse workforce, this article also raises the subject of how to attract a diversified nurse workforce to meet the demands of ever changing public demographic.

Within this article are practical changes that could be implemented in the current nursing educational system including online and simulation labs.

I think this is an excellent article, which informs and suggests practical changes. The nurses that authored this article are suggesting that a transformed education system for nursing would better produce quality professionals as well as the amount of professionals required. "

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