Annotated Bibliography: Nursing Shortage and Its Ethical Implications

Annotated Bibliography: Nursing Shortage and Its Ethical Implications

Van,K., Florquin,M., Bruyneel,L., Aiken,L., Diya,L., Lesaffre,E., & Sermeus,W. (2013)

Van et al. (2013) in their article explains that nurse shortages have mostly been contributed by the increasing demand for health care and the decreasing supply of nurses from the nursing institutions. The main purpose of the research study to examine the nursing hospital environments, extent of nursing staffing and their level of education on the cases reported for the intention to leave the hospitals. It was also aimed at providing the best understanding of the most effective practice in the organization of appropriate environment so as to retain more nurses. Van et al. (2013) performed the quantitative research that utilized 3186 bedside nurses within a total of 272 health care units that were selected at random in 56 Belgian acute care health care centers. A logistic regression as well as an in-depth semi-structured interview were used to indicate cases of nurses with intentions of leaving the nursing career. 29.5% of all the interviewed care providers were found to have intentions of leaving the nursing practice and still indicated that patient to nursing ratio was very significant and thus contributed to the intention to leave. The greatest limitation of the study was that not all the magnet components were comprehensively covered by the nursing survey. In conclusion, the author concluded that investing in improving the hospital environments remains to be a significant approach to retain health care providers and thus quality care services. From the article, it is evident that nursing shortage is a great issue of concern since the research deduced that almost 30% of the nurses had an intention to leave the career and thus my identified problem of nursing shortages is very relevant