The Role of the Registered Nurse

Abstract\nThe case of the registered nurse has always been a pivotal one at bottom the healthc ar delivery team. The capriciousness of the healthcare carcass, along with the on-line(prenominal) and projected nursing paucity has catapulted the importance of the nursing professing to the forefront of the societys current issues. concerted efforts by nursing leadership and healthcare administrators to recruit and celebrate fitting nurses to provide effective, select care are beingness evaluated by various groups for efficacy, and the results are being implemented by hospital facilities and other healthcare organizations. This paper explores the nursing short get along crisis, the methodologies utilized to determine reasons lavatory the problem (high turnover rates, increase demand, aging nursing population), and the recommendations provided to effectively combat the issue.\n\nRecruitment and property - Combating the Nursing Shortage\nThe late enacted Patient Protection and affordable Care Act (ACA) pull up stakes expand healthcare reporting in the United States by an additional 32 one one thousand million million. This, in conjunction with the increase in number of persons over the age of 65, will undoubtedly focalise our health care system in a quandary. combining the problem is the shortage of qualified nursing professionals to provide prime(prenominal) and effective care, especially in the primary care setting.\nAs of late, registered nurses (RNs) comprise the largest segment of professionals functional in the healthcare industry. gibe to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), on that point are approximately 2.7 million RNs currently employed in health care in the United States. Of these, approximately 1.5 million (55 percent) are age 50 or over (American tie-in of Colleges of Nursing, 2014). These figures allude to the dismal next of nursing with the supply of nurses not meeting the demands of society.\nTo combat the consequences of an grand nursing shortage, intervention efforts moldiness be implemented...