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Focus On Older Nurses May Be Key To Solving Nursing Shortage
August 20, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Nursing Profession News
'Retaining older RNs in the workforce is an important means of addressing the nursing shortage, and employers and policy makers need to focus on this,' said Carol S. Brewer, Ph.D., associate professor in the University at Buffalo School of Nursing and co-author on the study published in the August issue of Policy, Politics and Nursing Practice.
'Keeping older nurses in health-care workplaces will require multiple strategies that target income opportunities, working conditions and recruitment strategies,' Brewer noted. 'Given the current projections for shortages lasting into 2020, more attention should be focused on this group of nurses.'
Registered nurses employed in other fields also offer a potential pool of experienced clinical nurses -- 7.2 percent of 1,906 nurses sampled in 29 states were working in non-clinical settings -- as do nurses who have retired, she added.
The study compared characteristics and work attitudes of RNs aged 50 and older with those of nurses younger than 50 at baseline and a year later. It also compared responses of older RNs working in nursing with RNs from the same age group working outside nursing or retired.
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07/24/2009
Speaking as an RN in the US, I can tell you that the idea of a nursing shortage is a lie. We do not have a nursing shortage. We have an obsession with healthcare. Most RNs have already noted this. We have also noted that the majority of Americans have no desire to take care of themselves (quit smoking, loose wt etc....) or their family members. RNs that work in other fields probably chose to be there because it makes them happier and RNs who are retired have earned that right. Nursing, at times, is hard labor. I always find it amusing how so often people act like nurses are community property. We are not. We have the right to choose other professions. And many of us are doing just that. People should take care of themselves and accept the mortality of themselves and their loved ones. Then you will see a decrease in the "nursing shortage."
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