What Is Nursing Shortage?

The nursing shortage is a consequence of a mixture of several circumstances for example, above average reduction in the nursing workforce secondary to poor work environments, depressed professional contentment, ineffectual human resources decision making and development, an increase in number of patients with chronic complex diseases, internal and external nurses relocation, insufficient compensation in addition to underinvestment in human capital (International Council of Nurses 2006 cited in Atefi, Abdullah, Wong & Mazlom, 2014).

The hospital’s mission is to “provide quality patient-centered services, promote and protect the voluntary not-for-profit healthcare system, provide quality health education, and respond to the changing health needs of the residents

Interestingly, there has been extensive research over the last thirty years, concerning the significance of “the nurse work environment for nurse outcomes such as job dissatisfaction, turnover intentions, quality of care, and patient safety outcomes such as mortality, complications, failure to rescue, and patient satisfaction” (Van Bogaert et al., 2014, p 1124), which reaffirms the necessity for excellent leadership and organizational culture in preserving the nursing workforce (Moneke & Umeh, 2013). Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to first provide an understanding of the elements that influences a nurses’ overall job satisfaction and its relationship to organizational commitment followed by suggested remediation strategies addressing the problem so as to create a work environment that encourages nursing staff commitment to patients and their