ISSUES AND TRENDS IN NURSING ADMINISTRATION: NURSING STAFF SHORTAGE

Faith Kanini Mutisya

Faith Kanini Mutisya Machakos General Hospital, Kenya

Abstract

Nursing shortage is an internationally recognized crisis and the biggest challenge in achieving the health system effectiveness. This paper sought to review literature on issues and trends in nursing administrations. Conceptual Framework for Nurse Shortage; Nursing Role Effective model, community-based model and Moos and Schaefer (1993) integrative conceptual framework and Donabedian (1980) were used to guide the study. The findings revealed that nurse staffing is associated with both nurse and patient negative outcomes. It was recommended that an improvement to nurse’s work environments and an increase in incentives may retain nurses in the profession and also attract young people into the profession. Key words: Nursing administration, nursing staff, health system, nursing shortage.

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