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The author talks about the document “The General Practice Nursing Workforce Development Plan, Recognise, Reform, Rethink” which intends to make practice nursing a top career destination, along with the proposed low-value prescription crackdown, in England.
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When it comes to the future of the health service, pressure on the workforce is as great a threat, if not greater, than pressure on finances. This was my argument in evidence to the House of Lords’ recent inquiry into the long-term sustainability of the NHS. (Candace Imison Director of policy. Health think tank the Nuffield Trust)
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The aim of this paper was to study the combination of personality and interpersonal behaviour of staff nurses in general hospitals in relation to burnout and its separate dimensions. A total of 880 Belgian general hospital nurses were invited to participate in the study. It concludes that the study confirmed the influence of the Big Five personality factors on the separate dimensions of burnout. Interpersonal behaviour made a significant contribution to the predictive capacity of the regression models of all three dimensions of burnout. Additional longitudinal research is required to confirm the causal relationship between these individual factors and burnout.
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More than 65,850 NHS staff began the retirement process in 2015-16, adding to pressures on the health service. Workforce experts and nursing leaders have spoken out about their fears for the NHS.
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Although it is plausible that nurse staffing is associated with use of physical restraints in hospitals, this has not been well established. In this longitudinal study there was a strong negative correlation between nursing skill mix and physical restraint use. Ensuring that skill mix is consistently adequate should reduce use of restraint.
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Chicago – The National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) and The National Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers (The National Forum) announce the publication of the 2015 National Nursing Workforce Survey, a new study that provides a comprehensive snapshot of the U.S. registered nurse (RN) and licensed practical/vocational nurse (LPN/VN) workforce in 2015.
Every two years, NCSBN partners with The National Forum to conduct the only national-level survey specifically focused on the U.S. nursing workforce. The study generates information on the supply of nurses in the country, which is critical to planning for sufficient numbers of nurses and ensuring a safe, diverse, accessible and effective health care system.
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There is a need to ‘future-proof’ the neonatal nursing workforce in Australia for several reasons.
New technology in the neonatal setting has led to an increase in the workload of neonatal nurses who are
required to use this technology as well as troubleshoot problems as they arise; an ageing workforce, with recent
AIHW data revealing that the average age of a neonatal nurse is 50.7, with 62.5 aged over 50. There is an urgent
need to attract nurses into the area, but as with many other specialities, there is very limited exposure to
neonatal nursing in undergraduate programs: . Of the 30 undergraduate nursing program providers available in
Australia, only 2 (7.5%) offer neonatal nursing as an elective course for those students interested in pursuing a
neonatal nursing career.
The overwhelming interest in neonatal nursing as a future career
has led to the development of a neonatal nursing undergraduate elective course at our University. The course
has 180 enrolments and is developed with industry consultation and may assist in meeting the projected shortfall
in the neonatal workforce in the coming years.
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The United States (U.S.) is facing a significant deficit of physicians and rheumatology is subject to workforce challenges. Currently, in many areas in the U.S., persons with rheumatic disease face prolonged wait times and experience significant travel distances to a rheumatologist. Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs), valuable members of the healthcare team, are utilized by about 25% of rheumatology practices. The 2015 ACR Workforce Study sought to expand current knowledge of the rheumatology workforce which included NP/Pas. The article concludes that recruitment and training strategies to increase the number of rheumatology NP/PAs to augment the workforce and improve access-to-care should be explored.
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Nursing is a safety critical activity but not easily quantified. This makes the building of predictive staffing models a challenge. The aim of this study was to determine if relationships between registered and non-registered nurse staffing levels and clinical outcomes could be discovered through the mining of routinely collected clinical data. The secondary aim was to examine the feasibility and develop the use of ‘big data’ techniques commonly used in industry for this area of healthcare and examine future uses.
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The High-Level Commission on Health Employment and Economic Growth was created by the United Nations to tackle the projected global shortfall of health care workers. The Commission developed recommendations addressing job creation, gender and women’s rights, education, training and skills, health service delivery and organization, technology, and crises and humanitarian settings. The Commission report is an opportunity for nurse leaders, key stakeholders, and advocates in our nation to continue to champion heath workforce issues. The timing is right as we anticipate a new presidential administration and state, federal, and local leadership in 2017.
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