As the global world are looking into health care system reform, it would be very important that the public understands the problem that would be faced with nursing shortage. The growing number of acute and long term care, retiring baby boomers, and the growing patient to nurse ration necessitate that we consider a creative strategies to address the nursing shortage. According to Drury, V., Francis, K., and Chapman, Y. (2015), “the current, significant number of mature-aged nursing graduates, combined with an already aging nursing workforce suggests the potential for a future imbalance in the nursing workforce. This imbalance, coupled with the global shortage of trained nurses, has significant implications for recruitment and retention in the future”. The number of nursing faculty are decreasing, which compounded to nursing shortage. The future…show more content… Deena, N., & Charlene, G. (2013) stated that, “the need for more full-time, tenure-track nursing faculty positions should be emphasized to university administration”. Ironically, lack of nursing faculty would prohibit a positive growth in labor market and the need for new nurses to become available. However, a decrease supply of essential personnel, such as nurses, would be a critical stressor to our patients. In this case, prolonged nursing shortage might increase the operating and labor cost, the risk of adverse patient outcome, and decrease the quality of patient care.
Conclusively, the solution to overcoming the nurse shortage is to train more students in nursing by creating more nursing faculty. Hospitals with high patient to nurse ratio adversely impact patient mortality. The hope of breaking nursing shortage lies in the ability to train and retain the next generation to the profession. Even when young people entering the workforce would begin to show. The question is, will it be enough to keep up with the volume
