Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days who chose a different national healthcare issue/stressor than you selected. Explain how their chosen national healthcare issue/stressor may also impact your work setting and what (if anything) is being done to address the national healthcare issue/stressor.

Respond to at least two of your colleagues on two different days who chose a different national healthcare issue/stressor than you selected. Explain how their chosen national healthcare issue/stressor may also impact your work setting and what (if anything) is being done to address the national healthcare issue/stressor.

I enjoyed reading your post. The nursing shortage is a pertinent problem affecting our healthcare system today. Over the years, the nursing shortage continues to progress. Notably, the nursing shortage almost doubled from 40,000 in 2010 to approximately 80,000 in 2020 due to nurses leaving the profession (AACN, 2020). Nurses’ continual downward turn affects the quality of patient care and increases nurse burnout, which further impacts the shortage. I feel the nursing shortage and burnout go hand and hand. Another significant issue affecting the deficit is work overload and high staff turnover COVID-19 pandemic and Nursing Burnout discussion essay.

Staff burnout has serious negative consequences on healthcare costs for organizations and their employees due to the physical and psychological tolls, which increases employees’ absenteeism (Mudallal et al., 2017). The nursing shortage/burnout will steadily increase, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Real solutions to the nursing shortage’s ever-growing concerns must take priority because the health of this nation depends on it.

References

AACN. (2020). Nursing shortage. American Association of Colleges of Nursing. https://www.aacnnursing.org/news-information/fact-sheets/nursing-shortage

Mudallal, R., Othman, W. M., & Al Hassen, N. F. (2017). Nurses’ burnout: The influence of leader empowering behaviors, work conditions, and demographic traits. National Center for Biotechnology, U.S. National Library of Medicine. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5798741/