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New simulation tools open the door for objective nurse workload management — a missing key to a healthy health-care system.
Surveying more than 5,500 nurses about the realities of their work lives highlights how a shortage of nursing staff could compromise Canadians’ ability to access safe, compassionate care.
We now have a sensible pathway to improve access to health care, using the skills of nurses, pharmacists and GPs appropriately.
A new study found that temporary assignments in new places reignited nurses’ passion to help others and helped them rediscover the meaningfulness of their work.
Nurses say violence is treated as ‘part of the job’ or believe patients can’t be held accountable for their assaults if they are intoxicated or distressed.
The COVID pandemic has exacerbated staff shortages in health care. We need to think about how we can better retain staff in this sector.
Each encounter that health-care students have with patients and families helps them understand real-world patient needs. That means all Canadians have a role in educating future health-care providers.
Reduced staffing means nursing home residents make more unnecessary trips to the hospital.
A strong commitment to improving things for the existing nursing workforce in the UK is essential to addressing this issue.
Recruiting internationally educated health workers is a key part of Canada’s proposed solution to the health worker crisis. But there are ethical questions about recruiting from foreign countries.
U.K. health worker protests echo issues in Canada. They are also a harbinger of future labour disputes and systemic collapse if austerity, underinvestment and neglect of health workers continue.
There is a huge and growing number of unfilled nurse vacancies in the NHS. But there is a solution.
Nurses who identify as Democrats have a significantly higher likelihood of having their children vaccinated against COVID-19 than those who identify as Republicans.
Burnout and ‘compassion fatigue’ can compromise patient safety and signal health worker exhaustion. And they are a ticking time bomb for health care.
The future of our health system depends on recruiting and retaining passionate and highly skilled health-care workers. It’s essential to build work environments where they feel supported and safe.
The greatest workforce challenge Australia faces is in health, an issue that will likely be with us for another decade. Here’s one way to fix it.
Research shows low male participation in the nursing workforce can stem from many sources, including reticence by career counsellors to recommend nursing as a career.
Adding more beds won’t fix emergency department pressures. Neither will one-size-fits-all processes. But improving patient flow and addressing staff shortages might.
Aged care reform remains unfinished business for Labor. It made a start this week but more needs to come.
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Professor of Nursing, University of Hull
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of South Florida
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Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Nursing, MacEwan University
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Professor, Department of Health Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Professor and Dean School Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, University of York
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Family Violence Prevention, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Researcher at the Centre for Health Policy and PhD candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor, Psychology of Healthcare, University of Leeds
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University of Southampton