September 3, 2024

September 03, 2024 Nursing Newsletter

By Challenger Corporation · 2 minute read

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Staffing Shortages Lead to Long Hours
Current Landscape of Nursing Education
Specialized Courses for as Low as $12.50
Focusing on NP Care Outcomes

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Facing 'Critical' Staff Shortages, Nurses in These States Work the Most Hours at Long-term Care Facilities - Vivian Health

This covers long-term care facilities only but relates to the upcoming increased staffing demands that will affect assisted living and care homes. Some staff nurses are already working 12-hour shifts, and these homes are already facing significant staffing shortages. A "spend more time with patients" mandate from CMS, without accompanying funding, is unlikely to produce meaningful results.

Facing 'critical' Staff Shortages, Nurses in These States Work the Most Hours at Long-term Care Facilities - Vivian Health

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Here’s the Current Landscape of Nursing Education

A HealthLeaders Media overview article examines the state of nursing education. While it touches on the two limiting factors in nursing education, it likely doesn’t fully capture the nature and cost of these bottlenecks. The nursing workforce is not growing, and current enrollment levels will not keep pace with the increasing demand. The two major bottlenecks are faculty recruitment and live clinical training. One requires funding, and the other requires reimbursement to the systems providing the proctored training.

The article mentions the potential retirement wave but overlooks the troubling attrition among younger nurses. According to the 2022 study Factors Affecting Turnover Intention among New Graduate Nurses: Focusing on Job Stress and Sleep Disturbance: More importantly, according to the Hospital Nurses Association, turnover rates among new nurses increased from 15.4% in 2006 to 45.5% in 2018, illustrating a 30% increase over a 12-year period [7]. High nurse turnover rates exacerbate nursing shortages, which can lead to poor patient outcomes and higher healthcare costs.

Here’s the Current Landscape of Nursing Education - HealthLeaders Media

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Specialized Courses for as Low as $12.50 per User!

Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
Emergency Nurse Practitioner (ENP)
Adult-Gerontology Primary Care (AGPCNP)
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP-PC)
Required CNE / CE (AANP / ANCC / Pharma)
Plus an array of supplemental general knowledge courses

Rounds with Leadership: Focusing on the Outcomes

The AACN is still grumpy about the spate of scope of practice opposition articles. They’re pointing to the NONPF 6th edition as the answer on some of the criticisms, namely the focus on clinical practice hours. And reasonably point to series of studies showing that NP care means improved outcome for patients. They count 20 states with clinical practice restrictions on NPs, we count 18, but the fact is that the NP scope of practice battle is largely already won, and some of the focus needs to move to how to maintain education quality in the face of demand for more NPs.

Rounds with Leadership: Focusing on the Outcomes

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