More People In Nursing: Trend Enough To Solve Shortage?

According to a study of the Vanderbilt University School of nursing, is the number of male nurses in the United States nearly doubled since the 1980s-grow from 5 percent to 9 percent of the nation 1.8 million nurses.

Higher wages and job security to more men to the field of nursing. According to a study of the Vanderbilt University School of nursing, is the number of male nurses in the United States nearly doubled since the 1980s-grow from 5 percent to 9 percent of the nation 1.8 million nurses.

Just as the number of men in nursing has steadily climbed up, so does the public perception of the profession. A recent Gallup Poll ranked nursing profession as the most trusted, above the teachers, military officers and even doctors.

This is promising news for those working to end the nationwide nursing shortage and averting an impending health care crisis.

According to the Vanderbilt study, could the nursing shortage 800,000 positions approach in 2020.

To recruit and retain more nurses, educators need to address the shortage of nursing faculty in colleges and universities in the nation.

According to a survey of the registration of the American Association of colleges of nursing, were more than 26,000 qualified candidates turned away from undergraduate programs last year to a large extent the result of Faculty shortages.

Hospitals, universities, and nursing organizations working at the end of the shortage of nursing with the help of private initiatives, such as the Johnson & Johnson campaign for Nursing's future. The objectives of this $ 30 million public-awareness campaign are the image of the profession of nursing, recruit new nurses and teachers and retain nurses that are currently in the appeal.

"Building awareness of the shortage of nurses and nursing faculty, as well as the benefits of a career in nursing, has a great impact," said Andrea Higham, Director of The Johnson & Johnson Campaign for Nursing's future.

"But joint efforts should be continued if we are to head off what is predicted as a huge problem in the next ten years."

The sponsors of the campaign fundraising events called promise of nursing galas, who spent more than $ 7 million for the nursing scholarships, Faculty fellowships and specialised nursing grants program. Higham said men are one of the main objectives of the campaign, pointing out that if the number of men entering nursing each year grew to be anywhere near the number of women in the field, the nursing shortage would cease to exist. The growing number of women entering the profession will be enough to the deficit in the time of the rise of the baby boomers to increased medical care?Only time will tell.-NOW