Nurse Shortage In Jordan

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Nurse Shortage In Jordan Jordanian Nursing
Council (JNC)

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Current Situation

• Increased Global Shortage of Nurses
• Movement of Nurses
• - Push Factors
• - Pull Factors

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Same Old Problems!!!!!!!

• Pay issues (overall and salary compression)
• Working conditions in hospitals
• Educational issues control
• Do nurses require intellect?
• Control over the work
• Control over the job

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Nurse Shortage Surplus 13 baccalaureate
programs

• Shortages
• Have occurred continuously
• Have received much attention

• Surpluses
• Have occurred within male nurses
• Have received little attention

Increasing tuition fees and type of educational
programs
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Nurse Shortage Surplus

• Female Nursing Students
• Shortages
• 1989 - 63
• 1997 - 53
• 2006- 31
• Population Women and Children 65

• Male Nursing Students
• Surpluses
• 1989 - 37
• 1997 - 47
• 2006- 69

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Learn your Lesson!!!!!!

• Be Prepared for the un-predictable
• Education system should not be considered as a
  machine

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Pause Analyze
Evaluate and Correct
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• The market could not correct itself in isolation
  of the education system

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• Education and practice
• Quality and quantity
• Supply and demand

Find the FIT
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Balance
Balance
Process
Process
Inputs
Faculty members
Students
Nurses
Quality Curriculum
Quality
Quality
Training facilities
Ratio MF
Leadership
Leadership
Scholarships
Mentorship
Students advocate
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• Why should employers (ie hospitals and
  physicians) depend on the government to supply
  nurses?

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What to do...
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Strategies to Address Workforce Issues

• Increase Supply
• Registered Nurses
• Faculty
• Enrollment of female nursing students should be
  60

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• Expand educational capacity and opportunity
• Increase government support for nursing education
• Princess MUNA Fund for nursing education
• Workforce data collection and planning
• Forecasting models of supply and demand
• Promote partnerships between service and
  education
• More effective recruitment (approach schools and
  families and include all stakeholders)

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Nursing Medal of Hounor
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Increase Retention

• View nurses as strategic assets
• Think it over . We need healthy Workforce
• Make positive changes in work environments
• Protect Workforce, and Ensure Safety

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Increase Retention

• Expand career options
• Strengthen nursing leadership
• Increase visibility of nurses contributions to
  quality of health care
• Decrease individual workloads

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What to do with the surplus of male nurses???

• They are bright nurses
• Highly Motivated
• Training in different specialty areas
• Working opportunities outside Jordan
• Agreements

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Problems!!!!!!

• Absence of solid policies
• The cycles of nursing shortages surpluses
  continues...

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Outcome

• .

The outcome should be one of a win win situation
and not a win lose as is currently the case
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Thank You