There are reports of current nurse shortages in all but a few OECD countries. With further increases in demand for nurses expected and nurse workforce ageing predicted to reduce the supply of nurses, shortages are likely to persist or even increase in the future, unless action is taken to increase flows into and reduce flows [...]

Job Description
The chief responsibility of the nurse anesthetist is the administration of gases to produce anesthesia and analgesia in a variety of settings. The nurse anesthetist assists in preoperative and postoperative care of the patient, and in the management of respiratory problems in ancillary departments, helping to educate other hospital staff regarding airway management. This [...]

A new study by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that increasing nurses’ pay is the most direct way to solve the hospital nurse shortage. According to the study, Solving the Nursing Shortage through Higher Wages, basic economic principles of supply and demand suggest that hospitals are not offering high enough pay to [...]

A Legal Nurse Consultant (LNC) is a Registered Nurse who works in the legal field providing expert advice on medical legal matters. According to the Journal of Legal Nurse Consultants, private law practices, insurance companies, care centers, state agencies and many other organizations rely on Legal Nurse Consultants for their expertise with approximately 80% in [...]

The Council on Physician and Nurse Supply is an independent organization dedicated to studying physician and nurse manpower trends. Based at the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Care Economics, the Council includes leaders from a number of prominent healthcare organizations (See Council Membership at the end of this survey.) Support for the [...]

Principal components of a health manpower planning process are: identification of current supply; projection of future supply; identification of current requirements; projection of future requirements; and affecting a balance between supply and requirements. Baker points out that it is not the health manpower planner who, in reality, makes decisions intended to bring about a coordinated [...]

The research is clear that having fewer patients per nurse or more nursing care hours per patient day is associated with fewer adverse outcomes. Having fewer patients per nurse is associated with lower rates of mortality, failure to rescue, and some specific adverse events, especially among surgical patients. This association is no longer in dispute.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The nursing shortage in the United States is becoming increasingly problematic and may adversely affect the health care industry. According to a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2007 study, the United States will require 1.2 million new Registered Nurses (RNs) by 2014 to meet the nursing demand: approximately 500,000 RNs to [...]

Independence Blue Cross (IBC) recognizes that nurses are critical to the health care delivery system, and that the ever-growing shortage of nurses and nurse educators in southeastern PA threatens the accessibility of quality and affordable health care in our community.
Addressing the nursing shortage
In 2003, faced with a growing shortage of nurses in our community, IBC [...]

Because nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologist assistants are not trained to make medical judgments, virtually all states require direct physician participation in care provided by these anesthesia providers. State statutes and regulations specify the requirements for medical direction or supervision of nurse anesthetists by a physician or dentist legally authorized to deliver anesthesia services. State statutes [...]