Summary: The Nursing Profession
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I have read The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges and Opportunities. I could see her frameworks what is in front of nursing in these days American Society. There are several current issues especially nursing shortage and nursing aging. According to Diana Mason’s outlines, nursing deficiency has an influence on all areas of health care, but some regions harder hit than others (Mason, 2011). ANA (American Nurses Association) publicized about nursing shortage. The United States has three groups are number of medical and health needs of over 65 people have reported a vast increase in the number of people, and will reduce the burden on our health care system. The recent reform of the health care provides access to millions of people …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that they have read the nursing profession: development, challenges and opportunities. they could see her frameworks what is in front of nursing in the american society.
- Explains that nursing deficiency has an influence on all areas of health care, but some regions are harder hit than others.
- Explains that a third of the nursing workforce is over 50 years of age and the average age of full-time nursing faculty is 49 years.
- Explains that the nurse shortage is just one of the many reasons for the phenomenon appears not have been complex.
- Explains that the us health resources and services administration (hrsa) predicted oversupply of 340,000 nurses in 2025. the federal government increased funding to nursing organizations such as the american nurses association lobby for a personal nurse.
Research published in July, 2000, issue of JAMA is likely to be more than 40% of nurses aged 50 to 2010 (Nevidjon, 2001). In fact, the nurse shortage is just one of the many causes of the phenomenon appears not have been complex. First, the nursing schools do not have enough faculties. Secondly, the over 65 elderly increase and they became requires a workforce of more and more nurses for receive health care. Third is the large number of nurses will soon retire due to the average age of the current nurse 47 years old. For these reasons is revealed is a shortage of nurses. Both policy makers and the overwhelming rhetoric as opposed to academia, the United States Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has predicted oversupply of 340,000 the number of nurses in the US so far in 2025 (Francis, 2015). The federal government increased funding to nursing organizations such as the American Nurses Association lobby for a personal nurse must respond to a request for communication with their elected officials. All nurses have been vocal advocates of increased funding for nursing care is the glue needed for health care must educate their representatives. For example, the public lobbying efforts, such as those caused by AIDS Breast Cancer Coalition, increased government support proven effective (Nevidjon,
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