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 [...]

Objectives: To assess how nurse to patient ratios and nurse work hours were associated with patient outcomes in acute care hospitals, factors that influence nurse staffing policies, and nurse staffing strategies that improved patient outcomes.
Data Sources: MEDLINE® (PubMed®), CINAHL, Cochrane Databases, EBSCO research database, BioMed Central, Federal reports, National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators, National [...]

Educating the next generation of qualified nurses in sufficient numbers is paramount to addressing the current nursing shortage. However, the current educational infrastructure in nursing schools inhibits workforce growth. While schools are struggling with such barriers as limited classroom space, insufficient clinical sites, and overall budget constraints, it is the shortage of nurse faculty that [...]

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 [...]

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) and the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) are pleased to present The Regulation and Supply of Nurse Practitioners in Canada. This is the first report to provide contextual information on the history, roles and regulation of the nurse practitioner (NP) profession in Canada with a statistical profile of the [...]

Florida, like other states, faces a longstanding nursing shortage and concerns have been raised that the Nurse Practice Act and its associated rules may create unnecessary barriers to addressing this problem. The act and rules contain four provisions that potentially could limit the state’s ability to produce or attract more nurses: faculty credential requirements, clinical [...]

More Efficient Communications for More Efficient Patient Care
The Cisco® Nurse Connect solution facilitates collaboration among mobile caregivers, enabling them to reach each other and to be reached over multiple types of devices, wherever they have a wireless signal. This provides more efficient patient care from almost any location. The integrated Cisco Nurse Connect voice and [...]

Providing high-quality care for more than 1.4 million older adults in the nation’s 16,000-plus nursing homes is the responsibility of RNs in both the nursing home and hospital setting. It’s estimated that the population of older Americans will double by 2030, growing from 31 million to 62 million among people ages 65 to 84 and [...]

SITUATION. The nation’s nursing shortage continues to have the potential to negatively impact the quality and safety of patient care both in civilian and military medical treatment facilities (MTF). Insufficient Army nursing capacity and in some cases low density specialties can threaten the viability of current and future AMEDD missions. The use of different nursing [...]

Registered nurses are responsible for a large portion of the health care provided in this country. RNs make up the largest group of health care providers, and are 77 percent of the nurse workforce.1 Historically, RNs have worked predominantly in hospitals; in 2000, 59.1 percent of RNs worked in hospitals. A smaller number of RNs [...]

The Iowa Board of Nursing is pleased to be a member of the nurse licensure compact. This new form of licensure and regulation will better protect the public by:
Allowing competent nurses to provide care both physically and electronically wherever care is needed;
Providing the public ready access to and a choice of qualified nurses;
Protecting clients against [...]

Barack Obama has been a consistent champion of America’s nurses. As an Illinois state senator, Barack Obama chaired the Senate Committee on Public Health and helped lead efforts to protect Illinois nurses and improve the quality of health care throughout Illinois. As a U.S. senator, Obama serves on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions [...]