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While the nursing shortage is most acute in countries in South East Asia and Africa, it is global, according to 2022 World Health Organization fact sheet. [2] The shortage extends to the global health workforce in general, which represents an estimated 27 million people. Nurses and midwives represent about 50% of the health workforce globally. [2]
A 2023 survey of top hospital concerns conducted by the American College of Healthcare Executives revealed workforce challenges, including personnel shortages, once again top the list. Addressing ...
Nursing History Review1.1 (1993): 229-246. Dawley, Katy. "Perspectives on the past, view of the present: relationship between nurse-midwifery and nursing in the United States." Nursing Clinics of North America (2002) 37#4 pp: 747–755. Fairman, Julie and Joan E. Lynaugh. Critical Care Nursing: A History (2000) excerpt and text search; Hine ...
The early history of nurses suffers from a lack of source material, but nursing in general has long been an extension of the wet-nurse function of women. [3] [4]Buddhist Indian ruler (268 BC to 232 BC) Ashoka erected a series of pillars, which included an edict ordering hospitals to be built along the routes of travelers, and that they be "well provided with instruments and medicine ...
Redditor u/Brocboy writes, "Hiring travel nurses at x3-4 the pay rate of a standard employee and then acting shocked when the staff nurses leave to go travel… causing a bigger need for travel ...
Nurses are heroes of the COVID-19 crisis. May 12 is International Nurses Day, which commemorates the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the first “professional nurse.” The World Health ...
The nursing force had among the highest rates of "burnout, injury and illness." [7] Along with a nursing shortage, there has also been a shortage of nursing educators, particularly nursing faculty in academia. [7] The COVID-19 pandemic in Canada spotlighted and exacerbated the existing nursing shortage. The shortage in the nursing workforce is ...
55 AD – Phoebe was nursing history's Christian first nurse and most noted deaconess. [2] 300 – Entry of Christian women into nursing. [3] c. 390 AD – The first general hospital was established in Rome by Saint Fabiola. [4] c. 620 AD – Rufaida Al-Aslamia became the first Muslim nurse.