Physician and nursing shortage has devastating implications for health care quality. Recent studies reveal that healthcare facilities with fewer patients at a particular time depict considerable and better health outcomes.
Shortages of nurses also influences the delivery of the long-term care that also integrates various care such as those in nursing homes.
Significance
This topic intends to improve the understanding and awareness about the implications of shortages of care givers on the healthcare systems.
While it is agreeable by the experts that there is the shortage of certified nurse midwives in the country and the current consideration is likely to worsen in the coming days, limited data about this exists. Thus, this research will improve the enlightenment of people on the challenges that presently affect our healthcare systems, and the measures taken by the government to provide solutions to such challenges.
The research is also significant as it will offer relevant recommendations to different concerned bodies or agencies which depict significant interests on the provision of patient care systems.
Relevant Background Materials
DesRoches, C. M., Buerhaus, P., Dittus, R. S., & Donelan, K. (2015). Primary Care Workforce Shortages and Career Recommendations from Practicing Clinicians. Academic Medicine, 90(5), 671-677.
The article offers the information about shortages in the healthcare workers and steps to investigate the manner of improving recruitment of more people into the profession.
Feldman, H. R., Greenberg, M. J., Jaffe-Ruiz, M., Kaufman, S. R., & Cignarale, S. (2015). Hitting the nursing faculty shortage head on: Strategies to recruit, retain, and develop nursing faculty. Journal of Professional Nursing, 31(3), 170-178.
This material addresses the shortage of the academic staffs at the Pace University’s school of nursing.
Salsberg, E. S. (2015). Is the physician shortage real? Implications for the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education. Academic Medicine, 90(9), 1210-1214.
This article addresses the validity about reports regarding the shortage of physicians in the United Kingdom.
Connell, J., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2015). What about the workers? The missing geographies of health care. Progress in Human Geography, 0309132515570513.
According to this article, the publishing of geographic data has persistently overlooked the distribution of healthcare personnel. In addition, the article asserts that physicians’ and nurses’ shortfall are also the consequence of factors such as compensation and political stability or lack thereof.
Kuhlmann, E., Groenewegen, P. P., Batenburg, R., & Larsen, C. (2015). Health human resources policy in Europe. In The Palgrave International handbook of healthcare policy and governance (pp. 289-307). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
On a deeper note, the paper investigates the roots of physician and nursing shortages in the face of an adequate supply. It is an important viewpoint as other scholars simply assumes that healthcare workers are simply not enough.
Thesis Statement
Shortages of nurses influence the delivery of the long-term health care.
Organizational Plan
The research will be organised to:
Introduction
Literature review
Methodology
Discussion, conclusion and recommendations
Space Per Section
Introduction is set to be 2-3 pages. The literature review will consists of the bulk of the research and therefore will be 8-10 pages. The methodology will occupy 3-5 pages and finally the discussion, conclusion and recommendations which should occupy 5 pages.
References
Connell, J., & Walton-Roberts, M. (2015). What about the workers? The missing geographies of health care. Progress in Human Geography, 0309132515570513.
DesRoches, C. M., Buerhaus, P., Dittus, R. S., & Donelan, K. (2015). Primary Care Workforce Shortages and Career Recommendations from Practicing Clinicians. Academic Medicine, 90(5), 671-677.
Feldman, H. R., Greenberg, M. J., Jaffe-Ruiz, M., Kaufman, S. R., & Cignarale, S. (2015). Hitting the nursing faculty shortage head on: Strategies to recruit, retain, and develop nursing faculty. Journal of Professional Nursing, 31(3), 170-178
Kuhlmann, E., Groenewegen, P. P., Batenburg, R., & Larsen, C. (2015). Health human resources policy in Europe. In The Palgrave International handbook of healthcare policy and governance (pp. 289-307). Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Salsberg, E. S. (2015). Is the physician shortage real? Implications for the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Governance and Financing of Graduate Medical Education. Academic Medicine, 90(9), 1210-1214.
