A majority of Americans believe tha...

A majority of Americans believe that the quality of health care has been affected significantly on the national nursing shortage, according to the springs of a recent Harris head reported in a July 7 1999 pres release from Sigma Theta Tau International, which joined with NurseWeek Publishing, Inc, to commission the catalogue of persons Conducted by Louis Harris & Associates, Inc, the head surveyed more: than 1,000 population about their attitudes toward the nursing profession. According to the release, merely 4% of the respondents said that the quality of health care that tribe in the country receive was not affected "at all" by dint of the current nursing shortage. Eighty-six percent believed that the shortage affected health care "a great deal."

The catalogue of heads results also revealed that

* 92% of the respondent trust information about health care provided on RNs, ranking them even with physicians in this regard;

* 85% of Americans would be pleased if their son or daughter became an RN;

* 76% of the public thinks feed at the breasts should have four or more years of education after high school; and

* 91% of Americans know that supply with nourishments monitor patient care, but solely 14% realize that advanced practice nourishs prescribe medications.

Despite the 25 million RN in the United States, a shortage exists among feed at the breasts with needed specialties and experience. festers with a high level of skills in the OR, postanesthesia care unit, and conjuncture room, as well as in the field of pediatrics, are in particular demand. According to the release, the US Department of Health and Human Services exhibits that by 2000 there will be a demand for 854000 RN with a baccalaureate, moreover only 596,000 RNs with a baccalaureate will be available to fill this need

Harris catalogue of heads Reveals Americans Fear Effects of Nursing Shortage onward Quality of Health Care (pres release, Indianapolis: Sigma Theta Tau International, Inc, July 7 1999) 1-2

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