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Happiness and Social Connectivity
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Nurses are critical to healthcare systems and structures in the United States, comprising the largest proportion of any healthcare workers. For years, there have been concerns about a nursing shortage in the United States, with recent data indicating that over 11 million more nurses will be needed within the next few years (Haddad et al., 2021). However, nurses generally experience low job satisfaction and high rates of burnout. Resultantly, the nursing profession has high turnover rates, which further contribute to understaffing (Haddad et al., 2021). More specifically, factors such as schedule dissatisfaction, heavy workload, and unsatisfactory work–life balance have been associated with burnout among nurses, which has, in turn, been associated with intent to leave one’s position (Flynn & Ironside, 2018). Given the personal and systemic implications of overwhelmingly negative emotions, burnout, and high turnover rates in the nursing profession, understanding the science related to happiness and social connectivity is crucial for nurses.
The measurement of leadership qualities as an aspect of nursing identity
Published in Roger Ellis, Elaine Hogard, Professional Identity in the Caring Professions, 2020
After a systematic review of policy and research reports Cummings et al. (2010) stated, ‘Numerous policy and research reports call for leadership to build quality work environments, implement new models of care, and bring health and well-being to an exhausted and stretched nursing workforce … Our results document evidence of various forms of leadership and their differential effects on the nursing workforce and work environments. Efforts by organizations and individuals to encourage and develop transformational and relational leadership are needed to enhance nurse satisfaction, recruitment, retention, and healthy work environments, particularly in this current and worsening nursing shortage’.
What Promotes Joy
Published in Eve Shapiro, Joy in Medicine?, 2020
I haven’t really felt the effects of the nursing shortage until the past year. But the tension is real and I’m feeling it. The fact that I’ve had a pretty steady staff helps in my joy. Once you have staffing issues—and I hear horror stories from a lot of other departments and directors—you just don’t have the staff, and the directors are working the night shifts and filling in the holes and coming in on weekends. I’ve never, ever had to do that. And if I had to start doing that, I don’t think I’d like my job too much anymore. I’m lucky.
The relationship between perceived competence and self-esteem among novice nurses – a cross-sectional study
Published in Annals of Medicine, 2022
Lena Serafin, Zuzanna Strząska-Kliś, Gilbert Kolbe, Paulina Brzozowska, Iwona Szwed, Aleksandra Ostrowska, Bożena Czarkowska-Pączek
The problem of nursing shortage has been highlighted as one of the biggest challenges to impact the effectiveness of health care systems [25]. In Buchan et al. [26] analysis of 10 countries the nurses leaving profession rate was 5–17% [26]. Furthermore, the intention to leave among novice nurses was also confirmed in previous studies [27,28] and they have been shown to leave the profession at a higher rate than any other group of nurses [29]. For both issues intention to leave the job and intention to leave the profession poor work environment characterised by factors such as understaffing and duties inconsistent with the competences have been revealed as a trigger [30,31]. Therefore, organisations’ priorities should include taking care of novice nurses by monitoring their adaptation process, minimising stress related to their new professional roles, and providing a positive environment where they can develop their competencies.
Undergraduate versus graduate nursing students: Differences in nutrition, physical activity, and self-reported body mass index
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Rebecca J. Graves, Susan G. Williams, Caitlyn Hauff, Sharon M. Fruh, Brook Sims, Geoffrey M. Hudson, Ryon C. McDermott, Scott Sittig, Thomas Shaw, Matt Campbell, Jennifer L. Barinas, Heather R. Hall
Practicing nurses and students must focus on patients, be open-minded and adaptable, and practice compassion and understanding. Ideally, they are in optimal physical condition and possess critical knowledge and clinical skills. These qualities are important for nurses to provide safe care for patients in hospitals and other settings.7 Also, nurses often face distressing moral, ethical, and emotional dilemmas. Cumulatively, these issues may lead some nurses to consider leaving the profession.8 Unfortunately, there is a nursing shortage. The United States (U.S.) needs 15% (438,100) more nurses by 2026.9 Thus, it is important to prepare the next generation of undergraduate and graduate nurses for these challenges that threaten their personal physical and mental health.
Improving the health assistant in nursing employment model through entry to practice nursing student perceptions: a cross-sectional study
Published in Contemporary Nurse, 2021
Zerina Lokmic-Tomkins, Melvin Kok Yao Khor, Kate A. Matthews, Jo-Anne Martin, Anthony McGillion
The World Health Organisation and World Bank projected that by 2030, there will be an estimated overall global shortage of approximately 7.6 million nurses, an estimate also characterised by workforce maldistribution (Scheffler et al., 2016). Similarly, by 2030, the Australian healthcare system is projected to face an estimated shortfall of 123,000 nurses due, in part, to the retirement of older nurses, as the average age of nurses in 2012 was 44.6 years (Health Workforce Australia, 2014b). Attrition of new nursing graduates is high as factors such as heavy workloads, a combination of inadequate support and inappropriate nursing skill, increased burnout and job dissatisfaction, prompt many to leave the profession (Health Workforce Australia, 2014a). The predicted nursing shortage is exacerbated globally by healthcare demand as patient acuity increases due to an aging population and an increase in the complexity of chronic diseases (All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Health, 2016; Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2015). The impact of COVID-19 on the nursing workforce across the health and education sector is expected to exacerbate these issues globally with the attrition from the workforce being of imperative concern (Rosa et al., 2020; Wynter et al., 2021).