Shortages in HealthCareII
SHORTAGES IN THE HEALTH CARE FIELD GLORIA GUY Table of Contents Page Chapter I. ... Shortages in the health care field are not anything new, but this one is a little different than most. ... Older individuals will help the short-term shortage but will be retiring before they can have any impact on the long-term shortages. ... Yet, excessive long workdays, nursing shortages, staff restrictions, financial constraints, and other workplace problems have been linked to low worker morale, poor quality of care, medical errors and patient death. ... At a time of growing shortages of nurses and other health care staff and high turnover rates among nursing homes workers and home care aides, health care workers are bargaining for improvements in pay, benefits, and working and patient care conditions. ... Health care shortages are the most pronounced in long-term care because it’s an area that has a lot of trouble attracting and retaining workers. ... The “Health Care industry professionals predict that the shortages of health care workers will peak in 2007 as the baby boomer generation begins to retire, and it will continue until 2020 unless the problems of staffing, working conditions and low salaries are resolved. ... WORKS CITED AHIMA, Study to Assess Workforce Shortages of HIM Professionals, downloaded January 12, 2003 Yahoo http://www.