Covering the nursing shortage crisis and emerging trends in nursing education
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Overworked nurses plead for help
I'm glad to know that in a time of crisis at Alice Springs Hospital where a shortage in nursing staff is so severe that the safety of both the patients and staff are at risk, our Health Minister has stepped in with some words of authority. Apparently after being briefed on the situation the Health Minister asked the hospital's CEO to "take immediate steps to alleviate the situation".
How's that for pressure?
Maybe it's just me, but the root of the nurse shortage at this hospital probably goes a little deeper than the CEO's hiring efforts.
Maybe the Health Minister should have taken this news worthy opportunity to address the issue of the decreasing number of qualified nurses available to hire and the fact that over 30,000 applications to nursing schools were turned away last year due to a shortage in educational staffing.
More on the Alice Springs Hospital Nurse Crisis:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1548830.htm
How's that for pressure?
Maybe it's just me, but the root of the nurse shortage at this hospital probably goes a little deeper than the CEO's hiring efforts.
Maybe the Health Minister should have taken this news worthy opportunity to address the issue of the decreasing number of qualified nurses available to hire and the fact that over 30,000 applications to nursing schools were turned away last year due to a shortage in educational staffing.
More on the Alice Springs Hospital Nurse Crisis:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200601/s1548830.htm
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