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ByLinda Belkner

“As long as there is work to do, I shall stay and do it, if I can.”

Florence Nightingale, Letters from the Crimea 1854- 1856

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Knowledge Management Strategy for the Nursing Shortage and the Aging

Nursing Workforce

Why is this topic important?

Relevance in the healthcare industry

Reasons for my interest in this topic

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Why is this topic important?

United States Department of Health and Human Services conducted a survey on the supply and demand of registered nurses. The results were presented in a report titled:

Projected Supply, Demand, and Shortages of Registered Nurses: 2000- 2020

This report examined the past, present, and future trends in the registered nurse workforce across the United States.

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Why is this topic important? There are over 1.89 million registered nurse

full time equivalents (FTE) working in the United States.

Currently, the demand for registered nurses is estimated to be 2 million FTE.

The current nursing shortage is a modest shortage of 6%.

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This nursing shortage currently at 6%

nationally is expected to rise to 29% by the

year 2020.

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Relevance in Healthcare Industry

September 2005The Joint Commission

produced a white paper titled:

“Health Care at the Crossroads”

This call to action is for those who influence, develop or carry out policies that will lead the way to resolution of the issue.

The report states that the nursing shortage is the most extreme of the healthcare personnel shortages.

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Reasons for My Interest in this Topic

I choose the issue of the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce for my blog because as a nursing

professional and nursing leader, the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce will impact my practice

of nursing and these issues are at the core of the survival of the profession of nursing.

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Historically, nursing shortages have been short lived and cyclical, the current shortage is different and is expected to last well into the

next decade and beyond.This shortage is:

Driven by the supply side of the supply/demand equation. This is a more complex shortage, which promises to worsen during the next

decade as more nurses retire. Past economic solutions such as sign-on bonuses, relocation coverage, or

new premium packages will have limited and temporary effects because they simply redistribute the supply of nurses, not increase it.

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The focus of my blog is to research and communicate the emerging nursing shortage and the aging

nursing workforce. Further study will help me to:

Develop strategies for keeping the aging nurse at the bedside.

Develop a “Call to Action” and risk management strategies aimed at reducing the impact of the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce on the delivery of high quality, safe, patient care.

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The goals for my blog : That I will be able to demonstrate topic

familiarity. That I will be able to provide a theoretical

framework for my blog. That I will expand my knowledge of the subject

and provide a balanced perspective.

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weblog (web-log,) sort of an on-line diary

(May 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 71 million blogs)

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A blog is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

My Blog

A Call to Action, Strategies for Dealing with the Nursing

Shortage

http://researchlinda.blogspot.com/

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Saturday, June 30, 2007AACN Fact Sheets on the Nursing Shortage and the aging Nursing Workforce

The baby boom generation, all 78 million of us, are aging. The health care system will become increasingly strained from the resources needed by the baby boomers and aging right along with their baby boomer peers are nurses. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has a fact sheet and strategies for deal with the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce that is excellent. http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Media/FactSheets/NursingShortage.htm

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Highlights:

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Target Audience

The Target Audience for my blog:

Registered Nurses Staff nurses Nursing leaders

Healthcare Administrators

A Call To ActionConclusion

To communicate information related to the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce

Present of a thorough picture of the anticipated crisis in the healthcare system related to the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce

Development of a “Call to Action” and risk management strategies aimed at reducing the impact of the nursing shortage and the aging nursing workforce on the delivery of high quality, safe, patient care.

Questions, Questions, Questions