Full Description
This book presents an overview of innovative initiatives to combat the nursing shortage being pioneered in a number of states, schools of nursing, and health care institutions. Among the strategies described are preceptor and mentoring arrangements, scholarship/work payback agreements, private and public funding initiatives to support the education of future nurses, and service/education partnership models. An international perspective is added by a chapter on initiatives in a hospital in Iceland.
Contents
Part 1 The policy front: combating the nursing shortage - Vermont's call to action; tackling the nursing shortage in rural Missouri - linking education and service in a differentiated practice environment; a rural state's response to the nursing shortage - Nevada's story; the shortage of operating room nurses - what AORN is doing about it. Part 2 The education front: the role of nursing schools in addressing the shortage; developing an accelerated BSN programme - the KSU partnership model; a collaborative effort among nurse leaders to address the hospital nursing shortage in Cincinnatti; perceptions of senior baccalaureate nursing students and nurse leaders - a look at elements of success in the workplace. Part 3 The retention front - promoting workplace satisfaction: intensity and challenge as an aspect of work satisfaction in an urban emergency room; power sharing - a strategy for nurse retention; STAT! - a four-step approach to nursing recruitment and retention in a tertiary paediatric setting; responding to ANA's nursing agenda for the future - the recruitment and retention programme at a major medical centre; career development programms at an Iceland hospital.
