The nursing shortage is due to an aging nursing workforce, difficulties retaining and recruiting nurses, and nurses leaving for higher-paying jobs. Nursing education must change its curriculum to prepare nurses for today's specialized healthcare needs. Nursing practice is becoming more business-oriented, so understanding its effects on nursing is important. There is an inadequate number of nurse leaders, and nurses should control their own profession and practice. Poor working conditions, low pay, lack of autonomy, and limited career development are ongoing issues facing nurses.

3. • The current nursing shortage is related to an
aging workforce, problems with retaining
licensed personnel, and difficulty recruiting
young people into the nursing workforce.
• Many nurses left nursing for higher paying
jobs.
• Brain drain

5. Changing Education
• Nursing education must make curriculum changes in
order to prepare the nurses who meet today’s and
tomorrow’s health care needs
• Leads to growth of knowledge
• Before: knowledge on comfort measures, hygiene and
diet was important
• Present : need specialization and advanced knowledge .
Hence specialization in nursing as nurses can specialize
in everything.

7. • To control nurses future
• Include nurses in future planning
• Assertive in claiming there right
• Decision making along with political system of
country
• Control over own profession
• Health care delivery has become more business
oriented and knowing its effect on nursing practice
is also important.

8. CHANGING PRACTICE
• Health care delivery has become more business
oriented and knowing its effect on nursing practice is
also important.
• Nurses perform many non-nursing functions
• But nurses should direct themselves towards
developing the standards and improving nursing.

10. • Inadequate number of nurses and midwives as
leaders in national and state levels.
• Nurse leaders and managers can help in improving
the nursing practice, nursing research, nursing
education, administration and making policies.
• Nurses responsibility increased, she has to act as a
team leader who direct and supervise
• Help in advancement of nursing profession

12. • Nurses have many roles and responsibilities
• There are number of care activities that nurse can
undertake according to their educational
background.
• But doctors do not delegate responsibility to them
• So nurses should be allowed to work independently

13. Control of practice
• Who shall control nursing practice ?
• Nursing should continue towards independence
and autonomy to maintain professionalization.
• Hence Nursing should control its own practices.

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• Nurses' working conditions are risk factors for
healthcare-associated infections as well as
occupational injuries and infections
• Poor infrastructures
• NURSE BURN OUT
-Over worked
-Stress
-No breaks

16. Improper Incentives & Pay scales
• Emigration of nurses were for financial
needs.
• The payment scale is still low compared to
other professions
• Transportation and safe housing
• Recognition for good workers

17. • Less human resources
• Less Job in govt
• Brain drain
• Poor living conditions
• Lack of autonomy
• Non uniformity in pay
structure
• Limited career
development
• Less opportunity
OTHER ISSUES

18. Miscellaneous issues
• Inadequate recognition of nurse’s status in health
care system
• Limited involvement of professional organizations.
• Low level competency of nurses
• Inadequate in-service education
• Less utilization of EBP
• Poor standards and guidelines
• Shortage of staffs at professional organizations
• Active participation of INC limited.

19. Mr. Livson Thomas
Lecturer
M.I.B.E Graduate School for Nurses of NL/
CMAI
Indore