A nursing shortage versus excellent attendance statistics in the Nurse Managers unit, will ultimately determine the success of the Nurse Manager’s performance record. It requires great effort and a dedicated approach from the Nurse Manager to ensure that there will not be a nursing shortage in the unit.

By and large the health care industry is affected with a nursing shortage, and this nursing shortage will have an impact on the Nurse Manager, who will need to ensure that the unit has the required quota of nurses working on a shift. An unwarranted nursing shortage in the unit will have negative ripple effects on the rest of the nursing team in that unit.

Understanding the full extent of the nursing shortage crisis is complex, but a few considerations for the nursing shortage in today’s world of health care, are that the pressure placed on a nurse today includes more then the physical demand on the nurse, there is also the challenge of a highly technical approach to patient treatment that the nurse needs to embrace and understand.

The ability to prevent a nursing shortage in the unit, when the odds are already against the Nurse Manager due to the overall nursing shortage in this industry, will mark the skill of the Nurse Manager as a leader.

To effectively deal with challenges like nursing shortage issues, the Health Care Performance Institute’s Nurse Manager training program places much focus on the methods to use for building confidence, trust and a committed team. A committed team reveals lower nursing shortage statistics.

Nursing shortage in the unit can be alleviated through drawing on the guidance in the training which will help to ensure that there is not a high level of staff turn-around. It is not only the nursing shortage that the Nurse Manager will have to cope with, finding nurses in an arena where there is a nursing shortage who are equipped to perform well, and who have the right disposition for the job description, can be very challenging.

Even though there is a nursing shortage in the health care industry it is still expected that a nurse has the capabilities to be “an analyst, a communicator, a facilitator, a problem solver, a decision maker and above all a clinical expert”! To use an analogy, these attributes amongst other skills that are also required, make sourcing nursing staff from a market place where there is a nursing shortage a bit like “finding a needle in a haystack”

Rising to the nursing shortage challenge The Health Care Performance Institutes Nurse Manager training program is geared to ensure that the Nurse Manager gains the skills to nurture and draw out life supportive qualities from a newly recruited nurse. The Nursing shortage status needs to be turned around and can be aided toward doing this when Nurse Managers invest in rearing top quality nurses.

Because the Institute knows that a happy nurse will want to develop their career under the care and guidance gained from their Nursing Manager. And it will be these nurses who will help to alleviate the nursing shortage status in the industry because they will want to stay and be part of their team!