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PHILADELPHIA (March 9, 20201) - The PhD degree prepares nurse scientists to advance knowledge through research that improves health, translates into policy, and enhances education. However, as the role of the nurse has changed, and health care has grown more complex, there is a need to re-envision how PhD programs can attract, retain, and create the nurse-scientists of the future and improve patient care.
To begin the dialog about the future of PhD education in research-intensive schools, the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) invited 41 educational, governmental, professional, and philanthropic institutions to a summit in 2019. During the summit, participants collaborated on re-envisioning how nursing PhD programs can successfully advance nursing science and situate research-focused nursing PhD graduates for success in academia and beyond. An upcoming issue of the
Solving Texas’ Nursing Shortage
An aging population means fewer nurses and more need. Adding nurse educators needs to be part of the solution.
By
Chance Townsend
Published in
Healthcare Business
March 1, 2021
4:00 pm
Texas faces an unprecedented nursing shortage, brought on by aging baby boomers, and their need for healthcare grows. The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated that shortage as the healthcare workers are under unprecedented pressure.
In 2016, The Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies projected that Texas would have an unmet demand of 60,000 registered nurses by 2030. Texas has the second-worst nursing shortage in the U.S, behind California, and by 2030 is projected to have a deficit of 15,900 nurses.
I worked for 20 hours yesterday. My body and spirit are broken.
So begins an oncology nurse s account of life in a hospital that s losing staff, where in the scramble for beds, someone with fever, cough, and shortness of breath lands in a unit occupied by immunocompromised patients. It s enough to bring the frustrated RN to tears. My anxiety is high, my mental health is in the toilet. I hope and pray we never have to live through a time like this again.
In a different hospital, another nurse, already on edge, braces for the next wave of illness: I m trying to mentally prepare myself. But my heart is broken at how broken the system is right now.
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