WK3Assgn Developing Organizational Policies and Practices.docx NURS 6053 Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Walden University NURS 6053 Interprofessional Organizational and Systems Leadership Develop
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WK3Assgn Developing Organizational Policies and Practices.docx NURS 6053 Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Walden University NURS 6053 Interprofessional Organizational and Systems Leadership Developing Organizational Policies and Practices Nurses are a critical part of healthcare and make up the largest section of the health profession (Haddad LM, et al, 2020). According to the World Health Statistics Report, there are approximately 29 million nurses and midwives in the world, with 3.9 million of those individuals are here in the United States (Aiken, L. H., Cheung, R. B., & Olds, D. M., 2009). But still, we can feel the nursing shortage, especially during this pandemic. Goldfarb et al. (2008) describe two means of defining a nursing shortage. Using the professional standards definition, a shortage is when there are not as many nurses as needed to provide a certain level of quality. A professional standards definition of shortage is highly dependent upon the source of the professional standard. A challenge in taking a professional standards approach is that there is not yet clarity among healthcare administrators as to how many staff are needed to provide quality care, or even what defines nursing care as quality care. Spohn (1954), in her examination of the perceived nursing shortage between 1930 and 1950, found that from 1932 to 1952, the number of hospitals in the United States changed very little. What did increase was the number of beds within hospitals; 52% more beds were reported in 1952 than in 1932. The. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
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