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February 15, 2009: Florida: Nursing shortage: 1 in 5 quits within first year, study says:"Many novice nurses like O'Bryan are thrown into hospitals with little direct supervision, quickly forced to juggle multiple patients and make critical decisions for the first time in their careers. About 1 in 5 newly licensed nurses quits within a year, according to one national study."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-15-nursing-shortage_N.htm
Category: Florida State Nursing Shortages ******************************************************
February 4, 2009, Canada: Nursing shortages make colleges get creative in training RNs:"Canada's nursing shortage has reached what many are calling critical proportions, with all levels of government, educational institutes and professional associations throwing money and time into creative solutions. According to Rachel Bard, CEO of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA), colleges and institutes have responded to the issue. "They've increased the output of nursing programs from 4,833 graduates in 1999 to 9,447 in 2007. That's an increase of 95.5 per cent." Category: Nursing Newstories, Current Events in Nursing: http://www.nursefriendly.com/news/ ******************************************************
May 10, 2007, American Journal of Nursing (AJN), Study finds decline in nursing faculty primary barrier to nursing program expansion:"Study suggests fewer nurses pursuing higher degrees may hamper efforts to address nursing shortage
New York, NY (May 10, 2007) – A report published in the May issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), based on the first study to examine educational mobility among nurses, found that nurses in North Carolina are not pursuing advanced degrees in sufficient number to meet the demands for nurses in faculty and advanced practice roles. The sample was comparable in demographic characteristics to the national pool of registered nurses as measured in the last National Nurses Sample Survey." ******************************************************
Florida: February 7, 2007: 2 Nurses Accused Of Withholding Medication At Nursing Home:"Two nurses who worked a Suwannee County nursing facility were arrested Wednesday, accused of several counts of neglect after an investigation found they withheld medication from elderly patients, according to the Florida Attorney General.
Ashley Dawn Fralick, 27, and Melissa Elaine Bowen, 30, were both employed at the Good Samaritan Center Nursing Facility located in Dowling Park.
"Knowing that elderly patients were denied essential medications is heartbreaking," Attorney General Bill McCollum said in a statement. "These victims rightly deserved and expected care and attention, but instead received neglect and abuse." ******************************************************
August 20, 2006: Philippines: Nursing exam retake pushed:"Various groups are strongly urging the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) and the Board of Nursing to conduct new licensure examinations in the wake of allegations that the last one in June was marred by cheating. They particularly want a retake of the two parts of the test that were allegedly leaked to examinees. Fely Marilyn Lorenzo, executive director of the University of the Philippines' Institute of Health and Policy and Development (IHPD), said the results of tests 3 and 5 of the exams must be nullified." ******************************************************
Wed, July 5, 2006: Canada: Calgary: Attracting new grads, Salary and quality of life key to recruiting RNs:"Graduating from college is an exciting time, especially if you're a nurse. The nursing job market is wide open for new graduates with health regions across the nation hoping to grab the attention of these valuable, living resources. The Calgary Health Region is the fastest growing health region in Alberta -- reportedly with an annual growth rate of 26,000 people." ******************************************************
March 20, 2006: Australia: Boom in nursing faces new hurdle:"THE University of Tasmania's nursing degree is soaring in popularity but there are concerns hospitals cannot keep up with the influx of trainees. A record 290 students have enrolled in the first year of the University of Tasmania's Bachelor of Nursing degree this year, which is 70 more than the usual intake. Overall, the degree has 790 enrolled this year compared with 694 last year. The Australian Nursing Federation yesterday welcomed the surge in interest in nursing, but warned it would be difficult to cater for the extra undergraduates needing clinical placements in hospitals." ******************************************************
Thursday, February 16, 2006: Kentucky: Nursing shortage gets Rx from CU:"Many communities across the state - and across the nation - have experienced a shortage of qualified nurses in recent years. And while local hospital officials say they haven't faced the same problem, we may never have to face it now. Campbellsville University has taken steps to address the shortage of nurses before it becomes a crisis. CU is preparing to admit its first students to a two-year associate degree of nursing program that will begin in August." ******************************************************
Thursday, February 16, 2006: South Carolina: Good faculty costly to hire:"Two recent Island Packet stories dealt with the acute national, state and local nursing shortage and with the desire to add a bachelor's degree nursing program to the University of South Carolina Beaufort curriculum. In both stories, mention was made of the need for nursing faculty. That need is only going to increase. The median age for nursing faculty is climbing closer to retirement age (I know, since I retired six years ago). Advanced degree registered nurses are more apt to choose areas of clinical practice over teaching positions. Why? As stated in one of the stories, nurses with a master's degree or doctorate "can make upwards of $100,000 in clinical settings." ******************************************************
Mississippi: Nursing school crisis By Rachel Leifer:"Robin Strom said she would love to teach nursing one day - if it paid as well as working in a hospital. She plans to graduate in August with a nursing degree from William Carey College in Hattiesburg, opening the door for her to take a job that pays an average of $47,220 a year in Mississippi." ******************************************************
October 1, 2005: California: Grant to help ease nursing shortage:"A $1.1 million state grant to the College of the Desert should help alleviate the local nursing shortage.
The college plans to create services that help more students complete the nursing program in four semesters. Eighteen other community colleges statewide also received grants from a $30 million program aimed at addressing California's shortage of registered nurses.
It's a serious problem. The United States already is short almost 150,000 nurses. With retirements in the profession and the growing number of baby boomers who will need increased medical care in their retirement years, the nation soon may be short as many as 600,000 RNs. A four-fold increase in new nurses is needed locally through 2010, according to a report this spring from The Coalition to Address the Bedside Nursing Crisis in the Coachella Valley authored by local doctor Max Harry Weil." ******************************************************
September 19, 2005: Illinois: Area nursing shortage keeps getting worse:"Chicago area hospitals are warning there's no end in sight to a six-year nursing shortage that could endanger patient care. "Imagine calling for a nurse and having no one respond because the staff is busy with other patients," the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council warns in a stark new report. The report noted that studies have documented that inadequate staffing can increase the risk of medical errors." ******************************************************
Sept. 18, 2005: Wisconsin: State facing health care worker shortage:"Wisconsin is facing a severe shortage of health care workers in the coming decades -- to the tune of about 10,000 health care jobs every year for the next 10 years -- state officials report.
The report, released Sept. 13 by the state Department of Workforce Development, forecasts Wisconsin's total health care work force to grow 30.3 percent by 2012. The numbers include new jobs created to care for an aging population and to replace the existing work force as it reaches retirement." ******************************************************
September 16, 2005: Wyoming: WY needs to improve working conditions to recruit nurses:"A survey of Wyoming nurses found that most think improving working conditions would do more to alleviate the current nursing shortage than recruiting would.
The survey, presented Thursday on the opening day of Wyoming's second annual Nursing Summit at the University of Wyoming, found 81 percent of nurses surveyed thought improving workplace conditions should be the top priority for addressing the nursing shortage. Recruiting new nurses was a distant third.
Wyoming is expected to have only 70 percent of the nurses it needs this year, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projects that the state might have only half the nurses it needs by the year 2020." ******************************************************
Sept. 15, 2005: Canada, Ontario: Sarnia: Not Enough Nurses:"The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) has launched a $2-million public affairs campaign to pressure the provincial
government to invest in nurses and repair the crisis in quality patient care.
"ONA has launched the 'Not Enough Nurses' campaign because nurses - and
most importantly, their patients - know the government has yet to deliver on
its campaign promise to hire 8,000 more nurses," said ONA President Linda
Haslam-Stroud, RN." ******************************************************
Sept. 15, 2005: Canada, Ontario: Fact check: Nursing Initiatives:"The McGuinty Government is working to rebuild the nursing profession in Ontario - a profession which was put under
great strain by previous governments. "Nurses are the backbone of our healthcare system," said Liberal MPP Peter Fonseca. "Our nursing strategy is helping nurses by investing in new
full time jobs and workplace safety improvements." ******************************************************
July 29, 2005: Experts on global nursing shortage provide recommendations to stem crisis:"International nurse migration experts convened on July 9, 2005 at the Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy to examine the causes and consequences of the global nurse shortage and to consider strategies to mitigate its negative impact on the health of people around the world. The recommendations and presentations from the expert meeting can be found at http://www.academyhealth.org/international/nurses.htm" ******************************************************
6/24/05: India: Nursing a grudge:"Although nursing is a sought-after profession abroad, Indians still stigmatise it as dirty," says Ivy Cherian, who worked in the Gulf for three years before moving to the US in 2004. "Our people are happy about the money we bring home. But — though they don't tell us so openly — they feel that interacting closely with the sick is not `respectable'." ******************************************************
24/06/2005: Scotland: Row over nursing recruitment figures:"A row's broken out over a fall in the number of places for student nurses in Scotland. Scottish Executive figures show there's to be a 10 per cent drop in the next academic year. But Health Minister Andy Kerr denies that it's a cut. This year the recommended number for student nurses going into higher education courses was almost four thousand. Next year that figure will be three three thousand five hundred. It's roughly a ten per cent drop." ******************************************************
Wednesday 18 May 2005: Great Britain: Biggest ever survey of overseas nurses working in London highlights that many are thinking of leaving the UK:"The NHS in London could face a staffing crisis in the future with more than four out of every 10 overseas nurses working in the capital admitting they are considering leaving the health service to take up posts in other countries.
That is the key finding from the biggest ever survey of internationally recruited nurses working in the capital, which has been published today by the King's Fund and the Royal College of Nursing. A major concern of the survey is that two thirds of Filipino nurses working in London – one of the largest overseas nursing staff groups - are considering leaving the UK to work in the US." ******************************************************
Tuesday, March 15, 2005: California: New nurse-to-patient ratios go into effect:"Hospitals became subject Monday to controversial legislation that requires them to adopt lower nurse-to-patient ratios.
Superior Court Judge Judy Hersher had ruled March 4 that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's administration had illegally tried to block more stringent nurse-to-patient ratios from taking effect at the beginning of the year.
The judge signed the order Monday, making it official. Hospitals will now have to have one nurse for every five patients on medical and surgical wards, as opposed to a nurse for every six patients, the previous minimum." ******************************************************
Feb. 5, 2005: Canada: Programs match newcomers with professions:"Mahnaz Alibeiki knew her nursing skills were needed in Canada but had no idea how she'd get a licence to practise in a Toronto hospital.
The 30-year-old Iranian newcomer had the healing touch; what she needed was some guidance in navigating through "the system" in a new country.
She got it through the CARE for Nurses Project, one of a score of provincially funded career-bridging programs that are helping foreign-trained professionals find a place in the Canadian workforce — a partial answer to growing criticism that Canada demands high skill levels from immigrants but does little to help them integrate." ******************************************************
February 3, 2005: Vermont: Help on Way for FAHC Nursing Shortage:"Some help is on the way to help fill a nursing shortage at Vermont's largest hospital.
Fletcher Allen Health Care has signed a contract with North Country hospital to hire registered nurses. North Country has experienced intermittent periods where they have had a surplus of nurses. This new agreement provides North Country nurses with the opportunity to work temporarily at Fletcher Allen.
The program is expected to start by mid-February." ******************************************************
January 18, 2005: Nature and Prevalence of Errors in Patient Care:"A Penn School of Nursing study provides the first detailed description of the nature and prevalence of errors by hospital staff nurses. During a 28-day period, 393 registered nurses kept a detailed journal of their errors and prevented errors, referred to as near-errors. Thirty percent of the nurses reported at least one error during the 28-day period, and 33 percent reported a near-error. Although the majority of errors and near-errors were medication-related, the nurses also reported a number of procedural, transcription and charting errors. The findings were presented in the November issue of the journal Applied Nursing Research and are derived from a previous study that examined staff nurse fatigue and patient safety." ******************************************************
January 18, 2005: Florida: Slowly running out of nurses, Limited-access programs produce limited grads:"Saeeda Lakhani wants to go abroad and "do volunteer work." And in order to get there, she decided to become a nurse. She admitted the path to becoming a nurse has been "rough and very hard." But she has stuck with the program.
"Nursing is one of the best ways to help out people," she reasoned.
Lakhani, who will graduate from UCF's nursing program in May, is among thousands of students across the nation who want to help out their fellow human beings by becoming a nurse.
But this dream will not come true for all of them, and the reason is far more complicated than a low GPA or the type of nursing program." ******************************************************
January 18, 2005: New York: United Hospital closing means more nurses for other hospitals:"Even before Catherine Kelly has worked her last day as an emergency room nurse at New York United Hospital Medical Center in Port Chester, she has begun her new job at a neighboring hospital.
As United Hospital prepares to close, Kelly was able to secure a post in the emergency room at White Plains Hospital Center, where she started the orientation process last week. She plans to work her shifts at the two hospitals around one another until United shuts its doors.
"I've had many, many job offers, I will be honest," said Kelly, a 42-year-old resident of Rye who said she wanted to remain with a hospital close to home. "Being an R.N., you are very fortunate." ******************************************************
January 17, 2005: California: Nurses headed to Sacramento:"Group opposes Schwarzenegger's changing of part of safe staffing law.
Lobbying in Sacramento for safe staffing ratios has become somewhat of a hobby for registered nurses in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
Much to their chagrin, they'll be flying to the state's capital again today.
This time it won't just be on the Capitol's steps. About 1,000 Southern California nurses 100 to 200 from local medical facilities hope to testify before the state's Department of Health Services. The nurses want to keep intact a provision of the 1999 safe staffing law that requires a one-nurse-per-five-patient ratio on medical and surgical floors." ******************************************************
January 17, 2005: Canada: Ontario: Government announcement sanctions nursing layoffs:"While Health Minister George Smitherman announced $200 million in transitional funding today to help hospitals balance their budgets, he acknowledged that hospitals would be allowed to cut the equivalent of 757 full-time nurses. "The Minister is sanctioning hospitals to lay off nurses in the midst of a chronic nursing shortage - this despite his mantra to protect patient care," said Irmajean Bajnok, the acting director of the Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario (RNAO). "How can you possibly protect patient care by laying off nurses? This will send a chill through the profession and send nurses packing, either to other jurisdictions or to other professions," she said." ******************************************************
Monday, January 17, 2005: Canada: Quebec: Nurses need help funding French lessons:"Health professionals working in public institutions in Quebec need to be able to work in French. Nobody with any common sense would challenge this general assertion, and indeed it has not been seriously challenged.
But now let's try another general assertion: Quebec is short of nurses, and needs all of them it can get. This one is equally impossible to challenge.
These two truisms bump up against each other in the case of nurses such as Elizabeth Davantes, Joan Mitchell, and Eulin Gumbs, experienced nurses who lost their jobs at the Jewish General because they were unable to pass a French test required of everyone who comes to Quebec to work in any of 47 professions. Two of the three women are now in the Employment Insurance system. The third is working in a fast-food joint." ******************************************************
Monday, January 17, 2005: Guam: Win-win. Program to train nursing assistants is of benefit to all:"Guam Memorial Hospital has historically had a problem recruiting and retaining nurses. Right now, the hospital is short about 18 licensed practical nurses and 27 registered nurses.
"We're still losing one or two nurses for every two to three nurses that we recruit," said Lillian Posadas, GMH assistant administrator of Nursing Services earlier this month.
In an effort to alleviate the shortage, and to groom future nurses, the Allied Health Program was created by Guam Community College, the Agency for Human Resources Development and Guam Memorial Hospital. The program comprises 24 high school students, who will receive 480 hours of training through August. They earn academic credit and are paid, as well." ******************************************************
Monday, January 17, 2005: Canada: Quebec: Nurses struggle to make the grade:"So why can't nurses do it? Mainly, it's a matter of time and money, say nurses and their advocates. Nurses are mostly women who are raising families. They earn less than most members of the 44 other professional orders required to write the test.
If they do have the time, they might not have the money for sessions with private French tutors, which can cost between $40 and $150 an hour.
Since the firings of Eulin Gumbs, 43, and Elizabeth Davantes, 47, both registered nurses at the Jewish General Hospital, were publicized Jan. 4, nurses' stories have begun to come out." ******************************************************
Sat Jan 8, 2005: L.A. Hospital Suspends Nurse After Death:"A patient died at a troubled hospital after an intensive care nurse ignored her worsening condition and alerted doctors only after the woman went into cardiac arrest, Los Angeles County health officials said.
Alarms on the patient's vital-signs monitor were either turned off or lowered before she died Nov. 18 at Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center, the officials said. The 47-year-old woman had been suffering from pneumonia and sepsis." ******************************************************
January 03, 2005: Arizona: Nursing grads face burnout as business shifts:"Twenty-five years ago, Donald Daien graduated summa cum laude from ASU's nursing college. With diploma in hand, the idealistic student ventured into the world to comfort sick people.
"People are most important to me so I decided to do something to help others...and chose nursing because it afforded the most direct and continuous patient contact," Daien said. "I felt that I could really make a difference as a nurse."
At first things went well. Daien worked at Arizona State Hospital, Phoenix Camelback Hospital, Maricopa Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital, among others." ******************************************************
JANUARY 3, 2005: Arkansas: State's Nursing Shortage Growing More Critical:"It may be more difficult for Arkansas to fill its need of nurses with foreign workers at the beginning of this new year.
The U.S. State Department no longer allows so-called fast track work permits to be issued to nurses in China, India and Philippines.
The permits reduced the time it took for nurses from the three countries to get work permits. The slowdown comes at a time when about 12 percent of nursing positions at Arkansas hospitals are vacant." ******************************************************
Sunday, January 2, 2005: Door closes on direly needed foreign nurses:"Until recently, U.S. hospitals saw Filipino nurses like Stephen Frani, who immigrated in October 2003 to work at St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center in Little Rock, as a promising way to counter the nationwide nursing shortage.
On Saturday, the gates closed.
On Jan. 1, the U.S. State Department stopped granting fasttrack work permits to immigrants from the Philippines, India and China. Those countries had filled their employment-related visa quotas for the first time in many years, after the State Department began processing labor-certification applications more rapidly." ******************************************************
Monday, January 03, 2005: Arizona: Nursing grads face burnout as business shifts by Beth Cochran:"Twenty-five years ago, Donald Daien graduated summa cum laude from ASU's nursing college. With diploma in hand, the idealistic student ventured into the world to comfort sick people.
"People are most important to me so I decided to do something to help others...and chose nursing because it afforded the most direct and continuous patient contact," Daien said. "I felt that I could really make a difference as a nurse."
At first things went well. Daien worked at Arizona State Hospital, Phoenix Camelback Hospital, Maricopa Medical Center and St. Luke's Hospital, among others." ******************************************************
Tue 28-Dec-2004: Minority Recruitment Plan Could Ease Nursing Shortage:"With Massachusetts and much of the nation facing a growing shortage of registered nurses over the next 15 years, the School of Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is launching a three-year effort to recruit more minority and disadvantaged students to the field.
Funded with a $957,755 Nursing Workforce Diversity Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the "Embracing the Challenge" project is being led by associate professor Jean E. Swinney.
According to Swinney, the project will connect students interested in nursing at middle schools and high schools to UMass Amherst and nursing programs at Greenfield, Holyoke and Springfield Technical community colleges." ******************************************************
December 27, 2004: Wyoming: State struggles to end nursing shortage:"Even though the number of people entering the field of nursing is holding steady, retirements and other departures are causing a net drop in available nurses statewide.
"I've been here 21 years, and I believe there's only been one year we couldn't say there was a shortage," said Phyllis Bell, vice president of human resources at United Medical Center-West.
A shortage of about 400,000 nurses nationwide will peak in about five years, she said. But in Wyoming, it will be especially acute.
Cheryl Koski, executive director of the State Board of Nursing, said Wyoming will have a 60 percent shortage of nurses by 2020." ******************************************************
Sunday, December 26, 2004: Job growth expected to continue:"Along with a nationwide shortage of nurses, hospitals throughout the United States are scrambling to find pharmacists willing to fill their around-the-clock needs as more of them are drawn to the relatively normal hours at retail outlets like Wal-Mart and Fred Meyer, Harrison said.
Another problem area for hospital recruiters is specialty positions, such as critical care nursing. "It just seems like we are going more and more into an era of specialties; it fine-tunes that recruiting need," she said." ******************************************************
Sunday, November 28, 2004:"Florida: Crippling nursing shortage looms on the national horizon:"Up Then Down. The number of nurses will actually increase in the short-term, according to Dr. Buerhaus, "The workforce is projected to peak at a size of 2.3 million in 2012," he said, but shrink to 2.2 million by 2020 owing to retirements. The increase will come from promotions to encourage young persons to enter the profession. Men entering the workforce have also been growing at a steady rate over the past two decades, increasing from 5 percent in 1983 with about 60,000 RN's in the workforce, to nearly 9 percent, or 160,000 in 2003, according to the U.S." ******************************************************
Tuesday, November 16, 2004: California: State faces nursing shortage dilemma:"Most everyone agrees that California is facing a major nursing shortage as many retire and schools struggle to keep up -- a shortage that places the state near the bottom nationwide for nurse-to-patient ratios and is predicted to get much worse by 2020. But while hospital administrators are calling for more nurses to be trained, the California Nurses Association, or CNA, has emphasized improving work conditions as the best way to attract more nurses." ******************************************************
November 16, 2004: South Africa: Nurses in pyjama protest:"Port Elizabeth - Nurses in the Eastern Cape say they may go to work in pyjamas as part of their "civvies" protest about uniform allowances. The provincial secretary of the Democratic Nursing Organisation of SA (Denosa), Kholiswa Tota, said on Tuesday the protest started in the first week of November, when some nurses turned up for work in jeans and Denosa T-shirts." ******************************************************
Thursday, September 9, 2004: Colorado: Scholarships help address nurse shortage:"As a global nursing shortage has forced countless medical facilities to limit and even cut vital health care services to their patients, officials at Yampa Valley Medical Center are working hard to keep the impact of the shortage as far from Routt County as possible.
An innovative scholarship program and an in-house training program are just two ways the Steamboat Springs hospital and health care facility is addressing its current and future nursing needs.
"We're really trying to do something to help ourselves instead of wringing our hands and saying, 'Oh, there's a nursing shortage,'" YVMC spokesperson Christine McKelvie said." ******************************************************
Tuesday, October 26, 2004, AMA criticises nurse poaching:"The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says the recruitment of foreign nurses is a short-term fix and should not be the main solution to addressing the current nursing shortage.
Vice-president of the AMA Mukesh Haikerwall says instead of poaching nurses from countries like South Africa and Zimbabwe, more should be done to train nurses locally. "People are being recruited currently from countries where their services would be far greater of use and benefit," he said." ******************************************************
10/21/04: North Carolina: Johnston Co. Schools Struggle with Severe Nursing Shortage:"When a student gets sick in Johnston County, there may not be a school nurse to treat them. The district has more than 26,000 students, and only 10 nurses. It's a situation that leaves the nurses over-worked, and students waiting for help.
For school nurse Jean Tripp, students in need never stop coming. She and 9 other nurses in the Johnston County School District are responsible for treating 26,170 students. That's more then 2600 students per nurse, well over the 750 government recommendation. "We are the primary caregiver for approximately 1/3 of the students because their parents don't qualify for insurance and don't have Medicaid." ******************************************************
October 8, 2004, Connecticut: Nursing shortage being tackled at high school level:"Wallingford -- The state's nurses are in short supply and statistics show that Connecticut will be short thousands of nurses in the next 20 years but high schools in the state are now trying to fill the growing void of vacant positions.
In about 15 years, millions of seniors will be on medicare. The federal government expects Connecticut will be almost 22,000 nurses short to meet future medical needs. The push is on for young people to enter health care professions." ******************************************************
Wed, Oct. 06, 2004: Michigan: Aging work force could worsen nursing shortage, survey shows:"The state's nursing work force is getting older, a trend that could worsen Michigan's shortage of nurses over the next 10 years, a new survey shows.
A third of the state's 110,000 active nurses say they plan to retire within a decade, according a survey that was to be released Wednesday by the Michigan Center for Nursing.
"We will have a significant shortage if we don't change things," said Anne Rosewarne, president of the Michigan Health Council, which conducted the survey. "But we have a great bell ringing right now saying we need to change things. We need to train more nurses." ******************************************************
Wednesday, October 06, 2004, Michigan struggling to fill nursing ranks, study shows:"Michigan needs to grow its supply of nurses because the state's 143,604 licensed nurses are graying, and there's no untapped pool of nurses who can fill the gap as they retire, a survey released today concludes.
The report by the Michigan Center for Nursing found that nurses are older, on average, than they were a decade ago. About one in every three say they plan to quit nursing in the next 10 years.
What the survey didn't find is a large number of licensed nurses who aren't working and want to jump back into the workforce." ******************************************************
Wednesday, October 6, 2004, R.I. facing nursing shortage:"By 2020, a study says, Rhode Island could have fewer than half the number of nurses it needs. Rhode Island faces an alarming shortage of nurses over the next decade and a half, and the state's nursing schools cannot possibly expand fast enough to fill the gap, according to a study released yesterday.
The chief problem is demographics: The nursing work force is aging, and so is the rest of the population. That means the demand for nurses will grow just as their ranks dwindle from retirements. There are fewer younger people to replace them, and they have many other career choices." ******************************************************
October 5, 2004: Massachusetts: The nursing shortage eases:"The nursing shortage in Massachusetts has eased -- with the vacancy rate dropping from 8.5 percent in January 2003 to 6.8 percent in January of this year, according to a study released last week by the state hospital association and the Massachusetts Organization of Nurse Executives. But hospital officials and nurses cautioned that the long crisis in the nursing profession is far from over." ******************************************************
Mon, Oct. 04, 2004: Florida: Nursing shortage could attract more men to the field:"Mike Barbour is a man in a woman's world, but he sees his world as a changing one.
Barbour graduated from nursing school in 1977 and has spent more than two decades in the field. Over the years, many patients have left their mark on his memory. One small boy often comes to mind. The patient was puzzled by Barbour.
"He finally said to me, 'What are you? Are you a doctor? You can't be a nurse because nurses are women,'" Barbour recalled." ******************************************************
Thursday, September 30, 2004: Ohio: Nursing shortage in area abates:"Hospital vacancies drop from 19% to 9%:"The shortage of nurses in Greater Cincinnati has lessened considerably in the past year, as have vacancy rates for several other hard-to-fill health jobs, according to a report Wednesday from the Greater Cincinnati Health Council.
As of June 30, about 9 percent of hospital nursing jobs were unfilled. That's much better than 19 percent as of year-end 2003 and 15 percent as of June 2003." ******************************************************
September 29, 2004: Iowa: Nursing Shortage Leads To Deluge At Schools,
Colleges Create Waiting Lists For Nursing Students:"Officials said Iowa nursing schools have been deluged with applicants in recent months. It is expected that the state's nursing shortage is expected to grow worse as baby boomers grow older.
Nursing school officials say they have been forced to create waiting lists or turn applicants away.
At the same time, college officials said they're also concerned that there will be a flood of nursing school graduates all at once, perhaps more than the number of available jobs at that time." ******************************************************
06/20/2004 Nursing shortage threatens your health care, Nurse Immigration USA, LLC.:"The nurses in the profession think it's the best job in the world. But it can be physically difficult, very stressful and emotionally draining," said Carol Cooke, a spokeswoman for the American Nurses Association. "Couple that with a work environment that doesn't pay what it should, and it can be a pretty dire picture."
Nurses account for about half of all health care workers, and studies show that they play a key role in monitoring patients' health status. Inadequate numbers of nurses are associated with increased infections, bleeding and cardiac and respiratory failure, studies show. About 53 percent of physicians and 65 percent of the public cited the nursing shortage as a leading cause of medical errors, according to a 2002 survey published in the New England Journal of Medicine." ******************************************************
Monday, April 19, 2004: New York State: Hospitals brace for nurse shortage:"Local hospitals are preparing for a nurse shortage, even though most administrators said they haven't been affected.
"If you don't have enough nurses, it definitely affects patient care," said Connie Jastremski, the chief nursing officer at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown. "We need to do better about being vigilant."
Margaretville Memorial Hospital and Mountainside Nursing Home in Margaretville are feeling the effects of the shortage." ******************************************************
February 16, 2004: Iowa: Nursing Shortage Leads To Loan-Repayment Plan.
Graduates Who Work In Iowa Will Have Loans Repaid:"Gov. Tom Vilsack unveiled a new program Monday that would forgive nursing students' and health educators' student loans.
Nursing graduates who remain and work in Iowa will have part or all of their student loans repaid. The governor said the program will help end Iowa's nursing shortage by keeping nurses in Iowa.
Depending on the nurse's work location and length of employment, the amount of debt repayment will be between $750 and $15,000. Nurse educators could have up to $20,000 repaid." ******************************************************
January 5, 2004: North Carolina, Local entities combat nursing shortage:"Women also have many more choices than they once did. They aren't just relegated to nursing anymore. They can enter into any profession within the health field.
"All those factors combined make it a complex shortage that doesn't have any easy solutions," Horns said.
This absence of qualified nurses poses many pitfalls, like inadequate patient care. Fewer nurses jeopardize a patient's safety because hospitals may be forced to rely upon unlicensed personnel. Beds could remain open since staff may be unable to fulfill patients' needs." ******************************************************
What Nurses Say In the search for solutions, By Tim Graham, April 8, 2002, Nurseweek.com:"One year ago, NurseWeek produced an attention-grabbing cover story under the headline "Critical Condition" that heralded an emerging worldwide shortage of registered nurses. The article reported that some nurses and their employers already were wrestling with the shortage and beginning an urgent search for solutions in the hopes of averting a potential catastrophe in health care.
The ink on those editions was barely dry when NurseWeek announced it was joining the American Organization of Nurse Executives to conduct a landmark national research study of registered nurses in the United States to learn their career intentions and perceptions of their work environment. The goal was to produce a research study that would provide objective data about workforce trends and identify possible steps that might be taken to address the shortage in the years ahead." ******************************************************
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