Nursing 911: Healthcare Staffing Crisis
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) --- The nursing profession is facing an unprecedented crisis as the healthcare industry grapples with a severe shortage of nurses. This shortage is projected to reach 13 million nurses worldwide by 2030. That’s why hospitals are diligently seeking innovative strategies to revolutionize the field in an attempt to save both jobs and lives.
Experts say nearly a million nurses will exit the industry in the next four years.
Tommye Austin, PhD, MBA, RN, says, “Even our younger nurses that just came into the profession are leaving the profession.”
Austin who has been a nurse for 34 years says, “It has to change. It cannot be the way it was done during the pandemic because we just don’t have the resources.”
How can we expect nursing to evolve?
“Working our nurses to the top of their license is one of the main objectives for our organization.” Explains Austin.
More solutions start by redefining roles or creating different levels of nurses: expert nurses, nurses with masters and nurses with Associate’s degrees … and some nurses even working from home – leveraging telemedicine and technology.
Austin explains, “A lot of nursing time is taken up by working on that computer and inputting that data.”
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