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Nursing is one of the most growing professions in the job market and it has a great effect on the delivery of health care (Morgan & Somera, 2014). However, nursing shortage remains an ongoing/prevalent global issue jeopardizing patient safety. Nurses have an important role in preventing medications errors, decreasing rates of infections and reducing falls and pressure ulcer incidents (Morgan & Somera, 2014).
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According to the Health Workforce Australia (2012) Br 2025 Australia will experience a 27• decrease in the number of nurses (Beanland, 2013). Furthermore, the Centre for Workforce Intelligence (CWI) in UK expects that nurses’ numbers will decrease by 11% in 2016 (Attree et al, 2011). Nursing shortage is secondary to lack of qualified nurses, poor nursing retention rates and job dissatisfaction (Zarea, Negarandeh, Dehghan-Nayeri & Rezaei-Adaryani, 2009). Therefore, to overcome this global issue, solutions such as successful recruitment and evidence-based retention strategies are imperative (Ferrell, James & Holland, 2011).
In this paper a registered nurse working in a tertiary care setting was interviewed regarding nursing shortage in the clinical setting and its impacts on the patients’ safety, see Appendix A. The purpose of this assignment is to explore the impact of nursing shortage as a contemporary global issue on patients’ safety. This paper will consist of an overview about nursing shortage definition and causes; a discussion about the impacts of nursing shortage on patient safety; and suggested evidence-based strategies to resolve this
